Healthcare professionals
On this page, you will find information on the Agency’s activities that are most relevant to healthcare professionals, including news, and events. You can contribute to the Agency’s work by responding to public consultations. Learn more about how Healthcare Professionals are actively involved in the work of the Agency.
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Engagement with patients and healthcare professionals over last 25 years
Check our short video to see how our interactions with patients and healthcare professionals have evolved over the last 25 years. Their involvement in EMA activities has increased with advances in legislation and awareness of the value they can bring to decision making.
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Human medicines: highlights of 2020
In 2020, EMA recommended 97 medicines for marketing authorisation. Of these, 39 had a new active substance which had never been authorised in the European Union before. These included one vaccine and one treatment for COVID-19.
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European medicines agencies network strategy to 2025
The strategy sets out how the network will continue to enable the supply of safe and effective medicines, in the face of developments in science, medicine, digital technologies, globalisation and emerging health threats, such as the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Paediatric medicines: progress on action plan
A progress update is available on the EMA / European Commission action plan for supporting the development of medicines for children. It specifies the status of each action and outlines concrete achievements to December 2020.
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Paediatric clinical trial preparedness
Recommendations are available from the European Network of Paediatric Research at the European Medicines Agency (Enpr-EMA) on clinical trial preparedness, for sponsors, principal investigators and triallists involved in paediatric clinical trials. ‘Preparedness’ is the structured assessment of contributing factors that enable the smooth conduct of clinical trials in a timely manner.
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Coronavirus disease (COVID-19)
Keep up to date with the latest information on how EMA is handling the COVID-19 pandemic.
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