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 of the Patients and Consumers Working Party (PCWP)

AdoptedReference Number: EMA/563123/2018 Rev. 4

Rules of procedure for the Patients and Consumers Working Party (PCWP) and the Healthcare Professionals Working Party (HCPWP)

Reference Number: EMA/109591/2018 Rev.1

2022-2025 Work plan for the Patients’ and Consumers’ Working Party (PCWP) and the Healthcare Professionals’ Working Party (HCPWP)

Reference Number: EMA/22769/2022

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Meetings

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

• Patients' and Consumers' Working Party meetings

Composition

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

Affiliation	Co-chairs
EMA	Juan Garcia Burgos
European Liver Patients' Association (ELPA)	Marko Korenjak

 

Organisation representative members

Member organisation	Representative(s)
AGE Platform Europe (AGE)	Julia Wadoux
Alzheimer Europe (AE)	Angela Bradshaw  Cindy Birck
European AIDS Treatment Group (EATG)	Nikos Dedes
European Cancer Leagues (ECL)	Toma Mikalauskaite Wendy Yared
European Consumers' Organisation (BEUC)	Ancel.la Santos Quintano Sylvia Maurer
European Federation of Allergy and Airways Diseases Patients' Associations (EFA)	Isabel Proaño Gómez Irina Csender
European Federation of Neurological Associations (EFNA)	Joke Jaarsma
European Heart Network (EHN)	Christine Dehn Carlos Altuna
European Institute of Women's Health (EIWH)	Maeve Cusack Peggy Maguire
European Liver Patients' Association (ELPA)	Tove Frisch Yiannoula Koulla
European Organisation for Rare Diseases (EURORDIS)	Francois Houyez Russell Wheeler
European Patients' Forum (EPF)	Claudia Louati Julie Spony
European Prostate Cancer Coalition (EUomo)	Günther Carl Steven Lerys
European Public Health Alliance (EPHA)	Rebecca Barlow-Noone Raymond Gemen
Global Alliance for Mental Illness Advocacy Networks (GAMIAN-Europe)	Jacinta Hastings  Nigel Olisa
Global Skin (IADPO)	Yalchin Mammadov
Health Action International Europe (HAI)	Courtney Davis  Jaume Vidal
International Diabetes Federation European Region (IDF Europe)	João Valente Nabais  Iryna Vlasenko
International Patient Organisation for Primary Immunodeficiencies (IPOPI)	Jose Drabwell Leire Solis Garate
Myeloma Patients Europe (MPE)	Hans Scheurer Kate Morgan
Thalassaemia International Federation (TIF)	Angelo Loris Brunetta Lily Cannon
World Duchenne Organization (WDO)	Elizabeth Vroom Dimitrios Athanasiou

 

Members representing EMA's scientific committees

Scientific Committee	Representative(s)
Committee for Advanced Therapies	Mencia de Lemus Belmonte Kerstin Elisabeth Sollerbrant Melefors
Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use	Ewa Balkowiec Fàtima Ventura
Committee for Orphan Medicinal Products	Tim Leest
Committee on Herbal Medicinal Products	An Le Olga Maria Palomino
Paediatric Committee	Eleni Katsomiti Johannes Taminiau
Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee	Michał Rataj Marko Korenjak

 

Observers

Observer affiliation	Representative(s)
EMA Management Board	Marco Greco Virginie Hivert
Healthcare Professionals Working Party	Anita Simonds Rui Castro
European Commission (DG SANTE)	Rotating membership
Coordination Group for Mutual Recognition and Decentralised Procedures - Human (CMDh)	Nina Malvik