Select your country Home About Products Business Development Capabilities Newsroom Report a Side Effect Contact Newsroom back 2020-04-28 Accord Healthcare ready to fill UK COVID drug shortages Deal announced to secure new supply of UK manufactured hydroxychloroquine Production scaled-up of other vital COVID medicines announced by the Government as being in critically short supply Accord Healthcare, one of the largest suppliers of generic medicines to the National Health Service, announces a deal* that will ensure a secure long-term domestic supply of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), a medicine under investigation for the prevention and/or treatment of COVID-19. If the current clinical trials with HCQ show a protective effect, it could be highly significant to the Government’s ability to alleviate mandated lockdowns and restart the UK economy. As a result of economic pressures over the last twenty years, legacy production of HCQ within the UK has gradually moved to Asia. Today, 100 per cent of the UK’s existing supply of the active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) of HCQ comes from abroad; this new deal re-establishes a long-lost domestic supply chain that will secure a reliable UK supply of a potentially vital medicine in our battle against COVID-19. Once operational, Accord expects to be able to supply approximately 50 million tablets of HCQ per month from October 2020. “Whilst we await an effective vaccine, an urgent focus for the world’s healthcare industry is to rapidly develop treatments for COVID-19. Should the result of the trials with HCQ prove that there is potentially a population-wide benefit, there is likely to be a significant world-wide shortfall in the active pharmaceutical ingredient (API). Other governments are already working to actively secure stocks of HCQ and its chemical ingredients, so this new deal will create a UK-based manufacturing capability for this medicine well in advance of when it may be needed most,” says James Burt, Executive Vice President, Accord EMENA. back Competition Law Modern Slavery Act Statement Legal Notices Privacy Policy Cookie Policy © Copyright Accord Healthcare Our use of cookies We use necessary cookies to make our site work. We would also like to set optional analytics cookies to help us improve it and optional marketing cookies to assist in our marketing efforts. We will not set optional cookies unless you enable them. Using this tool will set a cookie on your device to remember your preferences. For more detailed information about the cookies we use, see our Cookies page External Link Icon Necessary cookies Necessary cookies enable core functionality such as security, network management, and accessibility. You may disable these by changing your browser settings, but this may affect how the website functions. Analytics We would like to set Google Analytics cookies to help us to improve our website by collecting and reporting information on how you use it. The cookies collect information in a way that does not directly identify anyone. For more information on how these cookies work, please see our Cookies page. Analytics On Off Marketing Marketing cookies help us to better understand you and the way you use our site to help us deliver the best possible products and services. Marketing On Off About this tool External Link Icon Cookie Control