Healthcare professionals
Information on the European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) activities that are most relevant to healthcare professionals
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Healthcare professionals are key stakeholders in EMA's work. They bring expertise from clinical practice, research, medicines use and healthcare delivery. Their contribution helps ensure that EMA’s scientific and regulatory activities are informed by real-world clinical experience and remain connected to the needs of patients and healthcare systems.
EMA has been committed to fostering a strong and collaborative relationship with healthcare professionals since its establishment in 1995. These interactions have been formalised through an engagement framework.
Working with healthcare professionals
Healthcare professionals engagement
Healthcare professionals engagement activities, engagement reports, and the framework that supports EMA's engagement with healthcare professionals
Getting involved in EMA activities
Healthcare professionals can get involved as either representatives of healthcare professional organisations, representatives of their own organisation or as individual experts
Eligible healthcare professionals' organisations
Eligible organisations receive targeted EMA communications and consultations and frequently assist in the identification of experts for product-specific matters
Healthcare Professionals' Working Party
The working party provides a platform for exchange of information and discussion of issues of common interest between EMA and healthcare professionals
Information for healthcare professionals
Practical resources for healthcare professionals
Workshops, webinars and training videos to support healthcare professionals invited to participate in EMA activities
Key documents
Documents on key areas of the EMA's work with healthcare professionals and their organisations
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Medicine shortage communications
Information published in medicine shortage communications (MSCs) for healthcare professionals to inform them about specific medicine shortages.
Guidance on medicine shortages
Guidance is available on the actions that patients and healthcare professionals can take to help prevent and manage shortages of human medicines in the EU
Direct healthcare professional communications
You can find direct healthcare professional communications (DHPCs) published by EMA, which provide healthcare professionals with important new safety information about a medicine and any actions they need to take
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