Patients' and Consumers' Working Party

The Patients' and Consumers' Working Party (PCWP) provides a platform for exchange of information and discussion of issues of common interest between EMA and patients and consumers.

The PCWP, established in 2006, has enabled the Agency to build upon its existing interactions with patients and consumers. It provides recommendations to EMA and its human scientific committees on all matters of interest in relation to medicines.

The following documents provide information on the PCWP's responsibilities and composition:

• Mandate, objectives and composition
• Rules of procedure
• Work plan

For information on upcoming and past meetings of the PCWP, including meeting materials, see:

• Patients' and Consumers' Working Party meetings

The PCWP consists of:

• a core group of representatives from the eligible patients' and consumers' organisations;
• representatives from EMA's scientific committees;
• observers from:
  • the EMA Management Board;
  • the European Commission;
  • the Healthcare Professionals Working Party;
  • the Coordination Group for Mutual Recognition and Decentralised Procedures – Human.

The members' declarations of interests are available in the European experts list.

Co-chairs

Organisation representative members

Members representing EMA's scientific committees

Observers