EMA to give direct help to healthcare institutions
Plans to make expertise and information more readily available
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has released a 2011 action plan in which it commits to building closer links with European healthcare organisations so its expertise and information on medicines is more readily available to medical professionals.
An EMA note said it would focus this year ‘on the development and implementation of the framework for interaction between the agency and healthcare professionals’ organisations’ The aim would be ‘strengthening…the agency as an authoritative source of information on medicines’.
Advice that could be developed could include providing professionals with explanatory information regarding medicine leaflets and labelling as well as advising on and providing EMA non-confidential assessment reports on pharmaceuticals.