For physicians
Request a medicine for a patient in your care. We work with your hospital or a licensed consignee and keep you informed at every step.
In short
Physicians can request an unlicensed or hard-to-find medicine for a named patient through MedsAcross. You are the official requester, we verify your licence and registering council, and the quote goes to your hospital or another licensed consignee. A pharmacist reviews the prescription and the import approval before anything is dispatched.
What we supply
- Named-patient medicines that are not registered in your country
- Orphan and specialty medicines
- Equivalents when a registered medicine is short
How we verify you
Verification happens once per organisation and is renewed when a document expires.
- Your medical licence number and registering council
- Your hospital or clinic, and the licensed consignee who will receive the medicine
- A CV, when a manufacturer's access programme asks for one
Prices
The quote is addressed to your hospital or licensed consignee, never to the patient.
Legal routes
Rules differ by country and change over time. Each note cites a regulator or a published legal analysis. Your local regulatory adviser confirms the route for your case.
Manufacturer access programmes often ask the treating physician for a licence number, registering council and CV.
United Kingdom. Unlicensed imports need evidence of special clinical need, and cost or convenience is not an accepted reason.
Source: GOV.UK, notification of intent to import an unlicensed medicine
Russia. The current procedure needs a conclusion from a medical institution committee, and the Ministry of Health decides within 5 working days.
Source: Brace Law Firm, import of medicinal products into Russia
Brazil. The import runs through a health establishment with a technical justification, not through the patient.
Services for you
- Named-patient supplyUnlicensed and unapproved medicines for an individual patient, through the import route your regulator allows.
- Orphan and rare disease medicinesMedicines for rare conditions that are scarce, unregistered or slow to reach your market.
- Regulatory documentsCertificates of analysis, COPP, GMP certificates and export paperwork, organised for your regulator.
Questions and answers
Do I pay for the medicine?
Usually the hospital or consignee pays. The quote is addressed to them, and a third-party payer can be recorded where the route allows it.
Can I report a side effect?
Yes, through our side effect form or your national reporting system. We forward every report to the marketing authorisation holder.
What should the prescription include?
The medicine, strength, dose, duration and the clinical reason a locally available product is not suitable. Your regulator's form may ask for more.
Other buyers we serve
Request a medicine for your patient
Start with the medicine and the patient's country. We confirm the route and the documents before quoting.