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THEME 5<br />

This is the advance programme. New speakers and sessions will be added. Visit www.diahome.org for the most recent additions to the programme.<br />

Theme 5 | Wider Access (Generics/Switching)<br />

Christa Wirthumer-Hoche, Deputy Head, AGES PharmMed, Austria<br />

Christelle Anquez-Traxler, Regulatory and Scientific Affairs Manager, AESGP,<br />

Belgium<br />

How can we meet the patients' need and expectations? This question will be<br />

analysed for generics and self-care medicine. The efficiency of the existing<br />

regulatory system (licensing procedures, handling of the lifecycle, switchprocedures)<br />

will be discussed. Pros and cons will be identified in order<br />

to optimise access to medicines - also in developing countries – as well<br />

as affordable treatment by generics and biosimilars; with a high level of<br />

information to patients and consumers, which is especially important for nonprescription<br />

medicines. The impact of the new changes in the pharmaceutical<br />

landscape – a new Directorate General (DG), a new European Commissioner,<br />

new strategic roadmaps as well as new pieces of legislation – will be elucidated.<br />

Tuesday, 29 March 2011<br />

09:00-10:30 Session 0501<br />

SWITCHING: IS THERE AN IDEAL ROUTE?<br />

Session Chair:<br />

Hubertus Cranz, Director-General, AESGP, Belgium<br />

This session will review the existing procedures (CP, DCP-MRP, national) that can<br />

be used to switch a medicine, the conditions to be met and their pros and cons in<br />

terms of resulting access, resources needed etc. What are the influencing factors<br />

companies consider when choosing their ‘switching pathway’ and what would be<br />

needed to make it the 'perfect route(s)'. These views will be confronted with that<br />

of the authorities at national and EU level.<br />

The Centralised Procedure and Switch<br />

Eric Abadie, Chair, CHMP, Chair Pharmacogenomics Working Party, European<br />

Medicines Agency; General Directorate, Afssaps, France<br />

View of a National Authority<br />

June Raine, Director, Division of Vigilance Risk Management of Medicines, MHRA,<br />

<strong>UK</strong><br />

What are the Important Factors when Selecting a Procedure?<br />

Speaker invited<br />

11:00-12:30 Session 0502<br />

ARE NEW SWITCHES IN LINE WITH THE EXPECTATION OF THE 'EMPOWERED<br />

PATIENT'?<br />

Session Chair:<br />

Anthony Humphreys, Head of Regulatory, Procedural and Committee Support,<br />

European Medicines Agency, EU<br />

A number of new switches-in-class have born lately in the field of migraine,<br />

obesity, BPH, etc. Are these meeting patients' expectations? How is patient<br />

need/expectation known? What are consumers after? Are there gaps not met in<br />

terms of self-care? What are the criteria that matter for consumers and patients<br />

in a switching process both by industry and regulators? All these challenging<br />

questions will be addressed in this session giving a prominent role to patients<br />

and consumers.<br />

Switch: What could be on the horizon?<br />

Stephen Mann, Pharmaceutical Consultant, Co-Editor, SelfCare Journal, <strong>UK</strong><br />

Voice of the Patients/Consumers<br />

Speaker invited<br />

14:00-15:30 Session 0503<br />

CHANGING REGULATORY ENVIRONMENT: IMPACT ON THE SELF-CARE<br />

SECTOR<br />

Session Chair:<br />

Shirley Norton, Deputy Director, Vigilance and Risk Management Division,<br />

MHRA, <strong>UK</strong><br />

The last year or so has brought a number of changes in the pharmaceutical<br />

landscape: a new commissioner, a new DG, new strategic direction of the<br />

Agency and of the HMA, early experience with the variation regulations and<br />

possibly new legislations in pharmacovigilance and in the context of falsified<br />

medicines. The session will reflect on the impact these changes may have on<br />

the self-care sector and how it may adapt.<br />

Overview of the New Legislative and Regulatory Landscape<br />

European Commission speaker invited<br />

Will the Self-Care Industry be Better Off?<br />

Speaker invited<br />

Views of a National Competent Authority<br />

Regulator invited<br />

16:00-17:30 Session 0504<br />

IS THE PATIENT/CONSUMER ADEQUATELY INFORMED?<br />

Session Chair:<br />

Zaide Frias, Head of Regulatory Affairs, European Medicines Agency, EU<br />

We are witnessing a breathtaking evolution of new forms of digital<br />

communication. All of this is unfolding so quickly that we do not have time<br />

to pause and reflect on what is happening. Providing 'the right information,<br />

in the right place, at the right time' is even more crucial in a non-prescription<br />

environment where the intervention of a healthcare professional is optional.<br />

This session therefore proposes to explore amongst industry, regulators and<br />

consumer organisations ways to improve the quality of the conventional<br />

forms of communication on non-prescription medicines, to debate ways<br />

to disseminate such information more effectively and the potential for<br />

individualising such information to the consumer/patient needs.<br />

Industry View<br />

Helen Darracott, Director of Legal & Regulatory Affairs, PAGB, <strong>UK</strong><br />

The Regulators’ Perspective<br />

Isabelle Moulon, Head of Medical Information, European Medicines Agency,<br />

EU<br />

Consumers’ Perspective<br />

Ilaria Passarani, Health Policy Officer, BEUC -The European Consumers’<br />

Organisation, Belgium<br />

The Patient’s Point of View<br />

Ian Banks, President, European Men’s Health Forum, <strong>UK</strong>

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