Healthcare and medicines

Through our membership in the European Patients’ Forum (EPF), we represent allergy, asthma and COPD within the wider patients’ community. In 2016, we worked on the legislation shaping medical devices, the implementation of new clinical trial rules and discussions on inequalities and chronic diseases. We also brought our patients’ perspective to all meetings of the Patient and Consumers Working Party of the European Medicines Agency (EMA), were we led PCWP topic groups and pooled expert patients for the revision of new medicines. During the year, we also positioned EFA to be an official European Commission stakeholder in the Health Technology Assessment (HTA) expert pool from 2017.