Healthcare Professionals' Working Party
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The Healthcare Professionals' Working Party (HCPWP) provides a platform for exchange of information and discussion of issues of common interest between the European Medicines Agency and healthcare professionals.
The HCPWP, established in 2013, has enabled the Agency to build upon its existing interactions with healthcare professionals. It provides recommendations to the EMA and its human scientific committees on all matters of interest in relation to medicines.
The following documents provide information on the HCPWP's responsibilities and composition:
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Mandate, objectives and composition of the Healthcare Professionals Working Party (HCPWP) (PDF/94.38 KB)
First published: 12/07/2013
Last updated: 13/05/2019
EMA/109592/2018 Rev 2 -
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Rules of procedure for the Patients and Consumers Working Party (PCWP) and the Healthcare Professionals Working Party (HCPWP) (PDF/169.36 KB)
First published: 20/02/2019
Last updated: 13/05/2019
EMA/109591/2018 Rev.1 -
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2022-2025 Work plan for the Patients’ and Consumers’ Working Party (PCWP) and the Healthcare Professionals’ Working Party (HCPWP) (PDF/346.9 KB)
First published: 25/09/2019
Last updated: 26/01/2023
EMA/22769/2022
For information on upcoming and past meetings of the PCWP, including meeting materials, see:
The HCPWP consists of:
- a core group of representatives from the eligible healthcare professionals' organisations;
- representatives from EMA's scientific committees;
- observers from:
The members' declarations of interests are available in the European experts list.
Co-chairs
| Affiliation | Co-chairs |
|---|---|
| EMA | Juan Garcia Burgos |
| European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) | Rosa Giuliani |
Organisation representative members
Members representing EMA scientific committees
| EMA Scientific Committee | Representative(s) |
|---|---|
| Committee for Advanced Therapies | Alessandro Aiuti Federica Chiara |
| Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use | Fàtima Ventura Concepción Prieto Yerro |
| Committee for Orphan Medicinal Products | Elisabeth Johanne Rook |
| Committee for Herbal Medicinal Products | Olga Maria Palomino An Le |
| Paediatric Committee | Johannes Taminiau Dimitrios Athanasiou |
| Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee | Roberto Frontini |
Observers
| Affiliation | Representative(s) |
|---|---|
| EMA Management Board | Denis Lacombe |
| Patients' and Consumers' Working Party (alternating) | Angela Bradshaw Kaisa Immonen |
| European Commission (DG SANTE) | Rotating membership |
| Coordination Group for Mutual Recognition and Decentralised Procedures - Human (CMDh) | Jitka Vokrouhlická |