Challenges and priorities for the MHRA - consultation (MLX 339)

The attached consultation sought views from our stakeholders on how we should respond to the key challenges and priorities for the coming years. Also attached is the publication “Medicines and Medical Devices Regulation – What you Need to Know” which includes a full explanation of what we do and how we do it.  When launching the consultation, Kent Woods, Chief Executive of the MHRA, said “As the Agency develops its strategy for its second five years, we need to gather the ideas and perceptions of the widest possible range of stakeholders.  The closing date for comments was 2 November 2007.

Summary of responses - 29 April 2008
A summary report on the issues raised by consultees in response to this consultation is available to download below.

The following table indicates how organisations responded to the consultation.

Ref	Organisation
1	Future Inclusion (78Kb)
2	Brit Assoc of Dermatologists (16Kb)
3	National HIV Nurses Association (10Kb)
4	Lay Member of CSD (12Kb)
5	Surgical Materials Testing Lab (11Kb)
6	Patient Opinion (12Kb)
8	AAH Pharamceuticals (141Kb)
9	PLASMA (Professional Lighting & Sound Organisation (100Kb)
10	SimuGen (58Kb)
11	Westfield Medical Ltd (99Kb)
12	ABRHP (Chair of LTCA) (33Kb)
13	Medical Women's Federation (13Kb)
14	Royal College of Radiologists (36Kb)
15	Galpharm International Ltd (46Kb)
16	GE Healthcare UK (25Kb)
17	International Federation of Professional Aromatherapists (98Kb)
18	The Society and College of Radiographers (15Kb)
19	Good Clinical Practice Cmtee of the Brit Assoc for Research Quality Assurance (BARQA) (12Kb)
20	Association for Palliative Medicine of Great Britain & Ireland (12Kb)
21	Gene Therapy Advisory Committee (33Kb)
22	GeneWatch UK (122Kb)
23	Genetic Interest Group (69Kb)
24	Picker Institute (216Kb)
25	Department of Clinical Neurology, John Radcliffe Hospital (71Kb)
26	City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust (10Kb)
27	National Council of Women of Great Britain (35Kb)
29	Royal College of Physicians (582Kb)
30	University Hospital of North Tees (26Kb)
31	Orthopaedic Surgeon (8Kb)
32	The National Assoc of Women Pharmacists (51Kb)
33	Paediatric Chief Pharmacists Group (20Kb)
34	LGC Limited (160Kb)
35	Royal College of  Physicians Patient Forum Member (17Kb)
36	Foundation for Genomics & Population Health (90Kb)
37	Multiple Sclerosis Society (351Kb)
38	Cancer Research UK, Clinical Trials Unit, Institute for Cancer Studies (14Kb)
39	Yellow Card Centre Northern & Yorkshire, Regional Drug & Therapeutics Centre (12Kb)
40	United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS) (50Kb)
41	Association of Medical Research Charities (AMRC) (53Kb)
42	Association of the British Healthcare Industries (ABHI) (40Kb)
43	Wellcome Trust,Strategic Planning & Policy Unit (43Kb)
44	Human Genetics Commission (42Kb)
45	Brit Association of Pharmaceutical Wholesalers (57Kb)
46	Sanofi-aventis (59Kb)
47	Faculty of Pharmaceutical Med of the Royal College of Physcians (UK) (72Kb)
48	Royal College of Physicians (Edinburgh) (366Kb)
49	CMAS (9Kb)
50	Organon Laboratories Ltd (12Kb)
51	Novartis Pharmaceuticals UK Ltd (126Kb)
52	ABPI (Assoc of the Brit Pharmaceutical Industry) (285Kb)
53	Institute for Science & Society, University of Nottingham (164Kb)
54	PHARMAC, New Zealand (13Kb)
55	Brit Homoeopathic Assocociation & Faculty of Homeopathy (56Kb)
56	British In Vitro Diagnostics Association (BIVDA) (45Kb)
57	The Royal College of Midwives (45Kb)
58	Guild of Healthcare Pharmacists-Unite Amicus Section (62Kb)
59	Arthritis Care (28Kb)
60	Association of British Dispensing Opticians (ABDO), Association of Optometrists (AOP) & Federation of Ophthalmic & Dispensing Opticians (FODO) (104Kb)
61	Pfizer (45Kb)
62	British Standards Intitute (BSI) (31Kb)
63	BioIndustry Association (93Kb)
64	General Dental Council (112Kb)
65	Europeans for Medical Progress Trust (37Kb)
66	National Pharmacy Association (81Kb)
67	The Proprietary Association of Great Britain (PAGB) (219Kb)
68	Cancer Research UK (29Kb)
69	Antimicrobial Resistance & Healthcare Associated Infection (ARHAI) (36Kb)
70	UK National Stem Cell Network (UKNSCN) (14Kb)
71	Herbal Medicines Advisory Cmtee (15Kb)
72	UK Clinical Research Network Co-ordinating Centre (13Kb)
73	Scientific Advisory Cmtee, Royal College of Obs & Gynaecology (184Kb)
74	Schering-Plough Ltd (13Kb)
75	Nuffield Hospitals (108Kb)
76	Welsh Blood Service (21Kb)
77	Thyroid UK (11Kb)
78	Datapharm Communications Ltd (93Kb)
79	Pernicious Anaemia Society (72Kb)
80	The Academy of Medical Sciences (90Kb)
82	ABRHP Member (106Kb)
83	University Hospital of North Staffordshire NHS Trust (44Kb)
*84	Rethink (35Kb)
85	Devon Primary Care Trust (18Kb)
86	NHS Lothian - The Queen's Medical Research Institute (12Kb)
87	Chair, Institute of Physics and Engineering Medicine (44Kb)
88	UniChem Ltd (32Kb)
89	Canada Health, Policy, Planning and International Affairs Directorate (126Kb)
90	British Medical Association (39Kb)
91	British Healthcare Trades Association (BHTA) (78Kb)
92	Patients Association (69Kb)