Access to Medicines (ensuring the supply chain for access to safe
and effective medicines), is a high priority for health professionals, patients
and health policy makers and funders within the European and global health
perspective. The aim of the session at the EACPT Congress on this theme was to
understand challenges and solutions for access to safe and effective medicines.
Panel speakers discuss highlights from the session in the video below.
Panel speakers discuss highlights from the session in the video below.
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| Pavle Zelic, Jozef Glasa, Mike Isles and Donald Singer |
1. To understand which organisations and individual categories of
health professional are responsible for protecting patients from exposure to
unsafe and ineffective medicines.
2. To understand potential weaknesses in the supply chain of medicines
from production to dispensing.
3. To be aware of the risks to patients from accessing medicines
from unreliable sources, including from unsafe internet 'pharmacies’ and
unregulated “healers”.
Speakers and themes
1. Securing the supply chain of medicines: whose responsibility?
Mike Isles, Executive Director,
European Alliance for Access to Safe Medicines
2. Challenges and solutions for policy makers for access to
medicines
Professor Jozef Glasa, Institute of Pharmacology, Clinical and
Experimental Pharmacology and Institute of Health Care Ethics, Slovak Medical
University in Bratislava
3. Fight against falsified medicines: coordinated actions at EDQM
level through the Medicrime Convention
Pavle Zelic, International Cooperation, European Integrations and
Public Relations Manager, Medicines and Medical Devices Agency of Serbia
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