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How We Operate!
Communications
• Proactive and reactive public relations and media communications fore the sake of spreading awareness about dangerous effects of an over-the-counter medicine.
• WDA corporate communications include WDA annual review and a weekly e-newsletter giving an update of WDA's activities and a summary of the major news in the OTC sector.
Monitoring over-the-counter medicines and getting the hazardous ones banned.
• Keeping a vigilant eye on over-the-counter medicines and supplements around with world, conducting laboratory tests and getting the dangerous and hazardous medicines banned though concerned governments and media campaigns.
• Educating and training members of the association to register complaints from patients and initiate an effective communications with association, continuing it and extending cooperation when required.
• Systematizing customer's feedback of a over-the-counter medicines, supplements and consumer-products.
Legal & Regulatory Services
The Association provides advice to its members, masses and stakeholder medicine companies on all aspects of regulations, including advertising regulations and the WDA Codes of Advertising Practice. This extends to:
• Confidential advice on regulatory, pharmaceutical, food supplements and legal issues
• Presentations and mailings to members - provately or at members' meetings
• Guidelines and position papers on areas of relevance to industry
• Preparing industry positions and programs, where necessary, for particular OTC ingredients and product categories
• Approval system for over-the-counter medicines and food supplement advertising aimed at consumers. Advice is given in relation to relevant codes, statutory requirements and the product licence where applicable. Feedback is usually provided within 24 hours.
• Training in requirements for over-the-counter medicines and food supplement advertising
The Association’s views are represented to government and stakeholders in:
• Responses to consultations
• Meetings with government agencies, stakeholder bodies
• Conferences and seminars organized by WDA or other organizations
• Publications
The Association’s views are represented to government and stakeholders in:
• Responses to consultations
• Meetings with government agencies, stakeholder bodies
• Conferences and seminars organized by WDA or other organizations
• Publications
Health Policy & Public Affairs
The promotion of self care and self-medication and the appreciation of its role in underpinning health care in Great Britain is done by:
• Responding to governments consultations and working closely with governments departments on policies dealing with self care and self-medication
• Building partnerships with medical, pharmacy, nursing, patient and consumer bodies and airing issues of common interest
• Building the evidence base for self care through research
• Impact assessments of the business of parliaments and of policy documents from government departments (including health, finance, education, food and rural affairs) and NICE
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