Patient Information Expert Advisory Group of the Commission on Human Medicines

Remit

To advise on communication with patients and the public about risk: benefit of medicines, in particular via patient information leaflets and when risk: benefit changes.

To advise on the delivery and monitoring of the strategy to improve the quality of the patient information set out in the Committee on Safety of Medicines Patient Information Working Group report. Always read the leaflet.

To advise on the implementation of new European legislation concerning improvements to patient information, and to advise on European initiatives in the area of patient information including the European Commission’s commitment to report on patient information practice.

To advise the MHRA on ways to facilitate and promote patient reporting and secure further patient engagement in the patient reporting process.

Meeting dates for 2008

February	June	November
28	5	5

Membership

Chair
Ms Joanne C Rule BA
Patient information and engagement adviser

Members
Professor Dianne Berry DPhil C Psychol ACSS
Pro-Vice Chancellor Research & Professor of Psychology, Reading University

+Dr Keith Beard BSc MB ChB FRCP(E & G) FFPM
Consultant Physician, Medicine for the Elderly, Victoria Infirmary, Glasgow

Mr Andrew Boag BA ISTD
Independent Design Consultant, Boag Associates (nominated by the Design Council)

▲Mrs Alison Bowser
Independent lay representative Royal College of GP’s, Cornwall and Isles of Scilly PCT, NICE medicines concordance guidelines development group

Dr Katherine Darton BA BSc PhD LGSM
Information Officer, MIND

Dr Nicola Gray BSc PhD MRPharmS
Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice, The School of Pharmacy, University of Nottingham

♦Mr Ian Hayes BSc CPFA
Independent Consultant in Patient Involvement and Long Term Conditions Self Management and selfcare.  Board Member of the CPPIH and the Terrence Higgins Trust, Board Member Trustee of Haemophilia Society - Lay Representative

Professor Jennifer Hunt Hon D.Sci, M. Phil BA (Hons) RGN FRCN
Research Consultant and Visiting Professor, Institute of Health Research, University of Bedfordshire

Mr Ian Pearson
Disability Awareness Advisor/Magistrate

Dr Ross J Taylor MD FRCP (Edin) FRCGP DCH
Senior Lecturer in General Practice, University of Aberdeen & General Medical Practitioner Principal, Grampian Health Board

Mrs Madeleine Wang
Patient Advocate

Dr Bruce Warner BSc MSc DPharm MRPharmS
Senior Pharmacist, National Patient Safety Agency

Industry observers
Mrs Helen Darracott LLB BPharm MRPharmS
PAGB Representative, Director of Legal & Regulatory Affairs, Proprietary Association of Great Britain

Mrs Janet Lewis
Head of Regulatory Affairs, Winthrop Pharmaceuticals, British Generic manufacturers Association (BGMA)

Dr Richard Tiner
ABPI Medical Director, Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry

Commission on Human Medicines observer
%Lady Carolyn M Roberts Rna RGN RHV MSc
Chair, The Ethox Foundation-Oxford Centre for Ethics and Communication in Healthcare Practice.  Health visitor

+  = Member and vice chair of the Pharmacovigilance EAG
▲  = Member of the Dermatology EAG
♦   = Member of the Pharmacovigilance EAG
▀  = Member of the Commission on Human Medicines
%  = Member of the Biologicals and Vaccines EAG and Medicines For Women’s Health EAG