Have your say on the TGA
January 18, 2011
THE government is urging
pharmacists and other health
professionals as well as members of
the general public to provide
feedback to a formal review of the
Transparency of the Therapeutic
Goods Administration.
An independent panel has been
commissioned to provide
recommendations on improving
public access and understandings
of the work of the TGA (PD 16
Nov) and committee chairman
Dennis Pearce said the probe would
“focus on the ways in which the
TGA communicates its regulatory
processes and decisions.
“The Panel would like to hear
from the general public about
instances where people would have
benefited from better access to
information about their medicines
or devices and about the type of
information that would have helped
them,” Professor Pearce said.
The panel is also seeking
feedback from health professionals
about access to information
provided by the TGA on the safety,
quality and efficacy of medicines
and medical devices.
And companies which make or
market therapeutic goods are also
being invited to provide feedback
on how the TGA could provide
greater assistance to them in the
evaluation and registration of their
products.
Advertisements seeking
submissions will be placed in daily
newspapers, and a range of interest
groups have also been invited to
provide comment.
A number of public meetings will
be held in February and March,
and written submissions will close
on Friday 11 February.
The panel is scheduled to report
to the government by the end of
April 2011.
Members of the panel include
Carol Bennett from the Consumers
Health Forum, Ken Harvey
representing consumer group
CHOICE, Kate Lynch from the
Generic Medicines Industry
Association, Steven Scarff from
ASMI, Kristy Tomas from the
Complementary Healthcare Council
of Australia and Elizabeth de Somer
of Medicines Australia.
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