Doctors, nurses, community and hospital pharmacists, hospitals and healthcare services, consumers, older people, health insurance funds and not-for-profit health mutuals, patients, persons with disabilities call on legislators to maintain paper package leaflets, and use electronic leaflets as a complementary tool.
Key demands
- 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.
Signatories:
- Standing Committee of European Doctors (CPME).
- Pharmaceutical Group of the European Union (PGEU).
- The European Consumer Organisation (BEUC).
- AGE Platform Europe
- European Hospital and Healthcare Federation (HOPE)
- International Association of Mutual Benefit Societies
- European Federation of Nurses Associations (EFN)
- European Association of Hospital Pharmacists (EAHP)
- European Patients’ Forum (EPF) is an independent non-profit, non-governmental umbrella organisation of patient organisations across Europe and across disease areas. Our 80 members include disease-specific patient groups active at EU level and national coalitions of patients.
- European Disability Forum (EDF) is an umbrella organisation of persons with disabilities that defends the interests of over 100 million persons with disabilities in Europe.