We ensure the safety and availability of human and veterinary medicines and the sensibility of pharmacotherapies

• actively promoting the availability of medicines and development of pharmaceutical services
• ensuring pharmacovigilance and by targeting our monitoring activities at key areas
• promoting the sensible use of medicines as part of the comprehensive care of a patient
• assessing the therapeutic and economic value of medicines
• generating and transferring information on pharmaceuticals
• engaging in assessment, research and development cooperation within the pharmaceutical sector
• cooperating actively with our stakeholders

We promote the interests of Finnish healthcare in the European pharmaceutical networks

• increasing the importance of our expertise in EU bodies and European pharmaceutical networks
• actively seeking participation in international marketing authorisation and monitoring tasks, which also helps us to expand our own expertise
• giving priority to medicines that are significant from a biological and public health perspective, personalised pharmacotherapy and generic medicines
• actively participating as a partner in the Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Network

We support innovations and provide advice to the pharmaceutical sector throughout the lifespan of a medicine as part of the implementation of the Finnish health sector growth strategy

• offering guidance to promising innovative drugs by giving drug advice and scientific advice as part of the EU Innovation Network
• promoting operations related to clinical trials
• developing scientific advice for the assessment of medicinal products and pharmacotherapy
• developing the use of post-authorisation efficacy and safety information
• actively participating in the debate on rational medication and pharmacotherapy

Our activities are based on a high level of quality

• ensuring that our staff is happy and has top-notch expertise and motivation
• strengthening our expertise in specific priority areas and by actively using the expertise so that we can enhance our influence
• ensuring that our human resources and financial position are in good shape and that we focus our resources correctly
• having effective digital processes and by producing and sharing data repositories
• seeking new solutions so that we can continuously develop our operations
• keeping our customer service pledge
• actively communicating on our activities so that we can make Fimea and its work better known