Our goals
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