Joint statement appeals to maintain paper medicine package leaflets, and use electronic leaflets as a complementary tool

Doctors together with nurses, community and hospital pharmacists, hospitals and healthcare services, consumers, older people, health insurance funds and not-for-profit health mutuals, call on legislators to maintain paper package leaflets, and use electronic leaflets as a complementary tool.

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Ahead of the future co-legislators’ interinstitutional negotiations on the European Commission’s Proposal for a revised pharmaceutical legislation in the European Union, the signatory organisations appeal for inclusive provisions that leave no one behind and are respectful of privacy and personal data protection.

Jointly, the organisations call upon the co-legislators to:

Contribute to an inclusive society, without enacting discriminatory rules that increase the digital divide and limit individuals’ choice

Recognise the importance of the package leaflet as a key tool for information accessibility

Balance the advantages and disadvantages of ePI

Protect patients’ privacy and guarantee that the information is not used for commercial purposes

Listen to patients and other end users as an evidence-base for action

Read the full joint statement here.

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