Healthcare Professionals' Working Group

The European Medicines Agency / Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use Working Group with Healthcare Professionals' Organisations (more commonly known as the Healthcare Professionals' Working Group or HCPWG) provides recommendations and proposals for action to the Agency and the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) with a view to developing a framework for interaction between the Agency and healthcare professionals.

The Working Group held its first meeting in November 2006.

It includes a balanced representation of different types of healthcare professional. It is a platform for dialogue and exchange of information with healthcare professionals’ organisations on relevant issues concerning human medicines. It monitors the progress of the interaction and helps to further identify gaps and priorities.

The HCPWG has identified three priority areas for its work:

• information on medicines;
• pharmacovigilance activities;
• involvement of healthcare professionals’ organisations in the work of the Agency’s scientific committees.

For more information, see:

• Final recommendations and proposals for action

Mandate, rules of procedure and work programme

More information on the HCPWG's responsibilities and composition is available in this document:

• Work plan

Composition

The HCPWG is composed of representatives from healthcare professionals' organisations, the CHMP and the Agency secretariat.

Meetings

HCPWG meetings:

• 8 May 2012
• 28 October 2011
• 4 March 2011
• 28 October 2010
• 2 July 2010
• 29 October 2009
• 30 October 2008
• 31 January 2008
• 24 October 2007
• 16 March 2007
• 17 November 2006

Joint meetings with the Patients' and Consumers' Working Party:

• 24-25 September 2012
• 28 February 2012
• 16 June 2011
• 5 March 2010 
• 9 June 2009
• 5 June 2008
• 1 June 2007

Related information

More information about the Agency's work with healthcare professionals is available.

Members

Below (in alphabetical order of surname) are the current members of the HCPWG. The members' declarations of interests are available in the European expert list.