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)

Adopted Reference Number: EMA/563123/2018 Rev. 5

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

Reference Number: EMA/109591/2018 Rev.2

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 Patients Forum	Marco Greco

 

Organisation representative members

Member organisation	Representative(s)
Alzheimer Europe (AE)	Angela Bradshaw  Cindy Birck
European AIDS Treatment Group (EATG)	Nikos Dedes Daniela Rojas-Castro
European Cancer Leagues (ECL)	Wolfgang Fecke Toma Mikalauskaite
European Consumers' Organisation (BEUC)	Ancel.la Santos Quintano Oriane Petit
European Federation of Allergy and Airways Diseases Patients' Associations (EFA)	Károly Illy Anna Murdock
European Federation of Neurological Associations (EFNA)	Orla Galvin Julian Spinks
European Haemophilia Consortium (EHC)	Roberta Sadauskaite Miguel Crato
European Heart Network (EHN)	Christine Dehn Mehitabel Holler
European Institute of Women's Health (EIWH)	Rebecca Maria Moore Peggy Maguire
European Liver Patients' Association (ELPA)	Tove Frisch Milan Mishkovikj
European Multiple Sclerosis Platform (EMSP)	Elisabeth Kasilingam Federica Balzani
European Organisation for Rare Diseases (EURORDIS)	François Houÿez
European Patients' Forum (EPF)	Claudia Louati Solène Jouan
European Prostate Cancer Coalition (EUomo)	Kees Vos Erik Briers
Global Alliance for Mental Illness Advocacy Networks (GAMIAN-Europe)	Hilkka Karkkainen Jacinta Hastings
Global Skin (IADPO)	Yalchin Mammadov Karin Veldman
Fédération Internationale du Diabète Région Europe (IDF Europe)	Sabine Dupont Iryna Vlasenko
Health Action International Europe (HAI)	Courtney Davis Alice Beck
International Patient Organisation for Primary Immunodeficiencies (IPOPI)	Otilia Stanga Leire Solis
Lymphoma Coalition Europe (LCE)	Natacha Bolanos Jan Mol
Myeloma Patients Europe (MPE)	Hans Scheurer Kate Morgan
Parkinson's Europe (PE)	Jessie Duncan  Hildur Kristjana Önnudóttir
Pulmonary Hypertension Association Europe (PHA Europe)	Eva Otter
Thalassaemia International Federation (TIF)	Angelo Loris Brunetta Radu Costin Ganescu
World Duchenne Organization (WDO)	Elizabeth Vroom Dimitrios Athanasiou

 

Members representing EMA's scientific committees

Scientific Committee	Representative(s)
Committee for Advanced Therapies	Kerstin Elisabeth Sollerbrant Melefors
Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use	Ewa Balkowiec Fàtima Ventura
Committee for Orphan Medicinal Products	Inês Alves
Committee on Herbal Medicinal Products	An Lê Olga Maria Palomino
Paediatric Committee	Victoria Romero Pazos Viviana Gianuzzi
Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee	Yiannoula Koulla

 

Observers

Observer affiliation	Representative(s)
EMA Management Board	Marko Korenjak Virginie Hivert
Healthcare Professionals Working Party	Elena Petelos Robin Doeswijk
European Commission (DG SANTE)	Rotating membership
Coordination Group for Mutual Recognition and Decentralised Procedures - Human (CMDh)	Nina Malvik