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Friday, July 13, 2007
In December 2004 the Department of Health’s Ministerial Industry Strategy Group (MISG) agreed to develop
a long term strategy for medicines. The objectives of this strategy were to continue to secure the
provision of safe and effective medicines for patients, whilst maintaining and strengthening the
UK pharmaceuticals industry within Europe, and to advance healthcare innovation with the NHS.
In February 2006, as part of the development of this long term strategy, the MISG agreed to establish
a Panel (The MISG New Technologies Advisory Panel) and a Forum , jointly sponsored by the MHRA and
the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI), to discuss future challenges in the
regulation of pharmaceuticals.
The MISG New Technologies Advisory Panel held its second meeting on 3 April 2007. A copy of the
minutes from the meeting including the papers submitted (where agreement has been provided by
the authors) are available on the MHRA website.
The next Advisory Panel meeting is in early November. Organisations and members of the public are
hereby invited to submit proposals for topics to be discussed by the Advisory Panel and Forum for
this meeting. A proposed template format for topic suggestions is
available
and potential topics should be sent to Ian Hudson at the MHRA
or Nicky Lilliott at the ABPI.
The closing date for receipt of topics is 28 September 2007.
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