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To put it briefly: none of us knows! As the UK prepares to leave the EU, members of the Westmister Parliamen…Read more

The European Commission has issued its report on the shortcomings of the Package Leaflet and Summary of Prod…Read more

Involving Users in Developing Health Information was an event organised in London in May 2017 by Patien…Read more

We are proud to be contributors to this authoritative reference book. Many in the Consumation team cont…Read more

This is an update to our previous post.  The Commission’s Pharmaceutical Committee discussed t…Read more

Consumation has completed a collaborative project with two workshops at Medipol University in Istanbul.…Read more

Two things we at Consumation all share: a devotion to the users of medicines; and making information for the…Read more

After two meetings in 2012, and a pan-European survey in spring of 2013, we have signposts for the way Europ…Read more

Also of interest to QRD are the deviations between leaflets on the market and those user tested. In a retros…Read more

Medicines information in the EU may look different in the near future, but only after we see the European Co…Read more

Announced to a mainly industry audience of the Drug Information Association in Washington, autumn 2012, the …Read more

At meetings in 2012 and 2013 it became clear that the possibilities of electronic labelling (e-labelling) ar…Read more

In Rome in 2012, some consensus was built in a couple of days. The Pharma Packaging and Labelling Conference…Read more

This January 2010 event took place at the St Bride Foundation, off Fleet Street in London – an area st…Read more

This is the book that started it all – the application of usability testing to medicines leaflets was …Read more

A more detailed document on the UK regulator’s recipe for better leaflets and user testing. A long doc…Read more

It’s not just leaflets that need to be understood. The lay-language summaries of risk management plans…Read more

A systematic review of quantitative and qualitative research on the role and effectiveness of written inform…Read more

This is a useful start page for European pre-authorisation requirements. It includes a useful…Read more

This is the core text for anybody drafting leaflets or needing to run usability testing in Europe. It is oft…Read more

The pan-European regulator publishes a number of guidelines on its requirements for written style, for timet…Read more

Patient information is the subject of more regulatory guidance than any other area of the MHRA’s opera…Read more