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The Pharmaceutical Forum – Delivering for Patients
How to move from agreed principles to good practice and positive change across Europe
Conference co-organised by the European Commission and the European Patient's Forum
25 March 2009
Charlemagne Building, Brussels
 Streaming video & Conference Report
Photos of the conference soon available
The Commission co-organized with the European Patient's Forum a conference in order to facilitate the dissemination of the outcomes of the Pharmaceutical Forum initiative among European and national patients groups and the Health Community at large.
The Pharmaceutical Forum was set up for a 3 year period in 2005 with the objective of finding relevant solutions to public health considerations, while ensuring improvement of the performance of the pharmaceutical industry in terms of competitiveness and contribution to social and public health objectives. The final conclusions and recommendations of the Forum as well as all the information relating to the process is available at http://ec.europa.eu/pharmaforum/.
The conference provided patients' leaders and health stakeholders throughout the European Union an opportunity to share the knowledge gathered by the members of the Forum on information to patients, pricing & reimbursement and relative effectiveness, to explore the solutions proposed and to put forward proposal for actions to implement and follow up the recommendations in their respective organisations and constituencies.
The event was web streamed to respond to the high interest to participate. The video, photos and reports of the event are available.
Scope of the Conference
Given that direct involvement in the process was mostly focused on experts of Member States and key stakeholders at European Union level, it was important to ensure that the Conclusions and Recommendations and specific deliverables from each of the working groups are shared with the Health Community at large.
The primary focus of the conference was the dissemination of the results of the Forum
In addition, concrete experiences were presented to illustrate how the Conclusions and Recommendations could be translated into reality by the whole range of health stakeholders and to ensure the momentum and energy underpinning the Pharmaceutical Forum will be maintained at all levels.
Who was concerned?
The conference was primarily dedicated to patients groups either specialised in specific disease areas and/or representing patients at the local, national or European level.
Furthermore, representatives from the broader health community with an interest in the three key areas addressed by the Pharmaceutical Forum took actively part in the conference.
Why this major conference?
The three years initiative gathered experts from all over the European Union representing different interests.
During the conference, for the first time, patient's representatives and experts from different European countries discussed their experience on how to meet these challenges.
This conference was a unique opportunity to
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Express their views on the outcomes of the Forum;
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Share their experiences on information to patients, pricing & reimbursement and relative effectiveness;
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Put forward possible solutions of interest for the participants;
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Explore how to apply the outcomes of the Pharmaceutical Forum in their work;
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Learn from others in order to move forward in their own constituency.
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