Agenda day 1


1:00 pm

Registration and Coffee

 

2:00 pm

Opening remarks of the Chairman

Dr. Thomas Dries
Honeywell (DE)
Chairman of the Board, HCPC-Europe

 

2:10 pm

Reminder Packaging for Improving Adherence to Self-Administered
Long-Term Medications

Why is reminder packaging imporant?
Summary of previous review
New findings
Future changes

Dr. Kamal Mahtani BSc PhD MBBS
University of Oxford (UK)

 

2:50 pm

Patient "Compliance or Adherence" - What's in a Word? - Why Patient might not be "Compliant"

Sandy Craine
CML Support Group, ECPC (UK)

 

3:30 pm

Coffee Break

 

4:20 pm

Pharmaceutical Packaging for the Benefit of Patients and Healthcare Professionals: EMA Perspective

Leagal requirements
How does EMA look at/evaluate the packaging
Patient safety: compliance and medication errors
How to reconcile national practices at European level
Challenges:
- Size of packaging versus multilingual labelling
- Packaging adepted to the patient's condition
- differentiation within a range

Dr. Isabelle Moulon
EMA (UK)

 

5:00 pm

Driving Patient Adherence by Packaging Solutions

Tassilo Korab
Executive Director, HCPC-Europe

 

5:40 pm

Closing Words

 

7:30 pm

Welcome Cocktail

 

8:00 pm

Networking Dinner

 

Agenda day 2


9:00 am

Opening Remarks day 2

 

09:10 am

Enhancing Patient Treatment Compliance with Product Specifications

Patient viewpoint on compliance
Compliance improvement with product specification
Opportunities for pharmaceutical companies

Peter Behner
Booz & Companies (DE)

 

09:50 am

What is the Pharmaceutical Industries' Interest in Improved Patient Compliance/Adherence?

Why the pharmaceutical industry is interested in patient compliance - from a business and corporate responsibility perspective
What do we know about the extent of poor adherence to medicines and what is its impact on health outcomes?
How can the pharmaceutical industry understand the real barriers patients have to medication compliance and self-management?
What are sustainable ways by which the pharmaceutical industry can help improve patient compliance and self-management?

Søren Skovlund
Novo Nordisk (DK)

 

10:30 am

Coffee Break

 

11:10 am

Adherence Monitoring in Chronic Injectable Therapy

How to achieve adherence monitoring with injectable therapy
Establishing the importance adherence
Benefits of adherence monitoring
- Clinical
- Pharma Company
- Other Stakeholders

Simon Exell
Merck Serono International (CH)

 

11:50 am

Addressing Market Needs (e.g. compliance, counterfeiting, child resistancy, portability...) Successfully throught better Packaging

Peter Reiner
Berndt & Partner (DE)

 

12:30 pm

Lunch

 

2:00 pm

Presentation Packaging Award

 

3:00 pm

Panel Discussion

 

3:30 pm

End of Conference