This document summarizes discussions around improving early patient access to innovative new drugs in Europe. It discusses the perspectives and needs of various stakeholders in health care systems, including patients, regulators, payers, providers, and drug companies. It also evaluates different approaches that have been tried or proposed, such as adaptive licensing pathways, managed entry agreements between drug companies and health systems, and performance-based risk-sharing arrangements. Finally, it outlines areas where more progress could still be made, such as increased coordination between regulatory agencies and health technology assessment bodies, better use of disease registries and electronic health records to generate real-world evidence, and public-private partnerships to support these efforts.