Tea, coffee and a continental breakfast will be served.

Welcome 

Dr Flic Gabbay (President, FPM)

Why bother with ethical principles?

Professor Raanan Gillon (Emeritus Professor of Medical Ethics at Imperial College London)

Trust in healthcare

Professor Ben Goldacre (Director of Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science)

Chaired by Dr Neil Snowise (Visiting Senior Lecturer, Centre for Pharmaceutical Medicine Research, King’s College, London and Board Trustee FPM)

Role of the state in public health with Q&A

Professor Chris Whitty FFPM (Hon) (Chief Medical Officer for England, the UK government’s Chief Medical Adviser and head of the public health profession)

Chaired by Dr Flic Gabbay (President, FPM)

The respective roles of the state, the medical profession and the individual in improving health is an important question in public health. This talk will explore the areas government is perceived to be responsible for in health, ones where the public believe government should have no role, and the areas where medical professionals provide a third dimension to a triangle of responsibility with the public and the state.

Coffee break and exhibition

Breakout workshops

Choice of one of the following:

1-Good compliance/lousy ethics

This session explores the relationship between compliance and ethics and the importance of both in sound decision-making. We will ask whether the current paradigm for generating, reviewing and approving commercialisation activities under the ABPI Code of Practice, is sufficient to meet the needs of patients and business and consider how a moral perspective on matters might change things. The aim of the session is to equip attendees with a practical approach to solving day-to-day problems that utilises both personal ethical intuition as well as an understanding of compliance obligations.

Dr Nick Broughton (Educator and Founding Partner, Ethos Ethics and Compliance)

2-Ethics and Trust in a Pandemic: ensuring ethical input alongside science and economics

This session will engage participants in aspects of the work and learning of the UK Pandemic Ethics Accelerator, which bought together ethics expertise to provide input into the key issues of the pandemic. Our focus will be ‘trust’ and ‘trustworthiness’ in pandemic health decision-making. After an opening discussion to help define and refine our key concepts, we will introduce a set of case studies to invite discussion and reflection in smaller groups. We hope this will encourage understanding of how divergent moral intuitions, personal histories, social positions, and so forth can factor into the trustworthiness of urgent health decision-making, and trust in the actors making key decisions.

Pre-recorded introduction from Professor Ilina Singh (Principal Investigator for the UK Pandemic Ethics Accelerator).

Dr Alex McKeown (Deputy Director, UK Pandemic Ethics Accelerator/Research Fellow – Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)
Mr Jamie Webb (PhD researchrer, Centre for Technomoral Futures, University of Edinburgh)
Chaired by Dr Sheuli Porkess (FPM Vice-President) 

3-Embedding ethics in Pharmaceutical Medicine

In this interactive break-out session we aim to discuss how ethics can be embedded in pharmaceutical medicine. Members and staff of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics will draw on first-hand experience to illustrate the importance of involving ethical thinking and expertise in science and medicine, and what this looks like in practice. We will also discuss the importance of wide engagement and good communication and the impact this can have on public trust.

Professor Carol Brayne (Co-Director of Cambridge Public Health; Professor of Public Health Medicine)
Dr Susan Tansey (Independent Consultant Pharmaceutical Physician, Member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, FFPM, FRCPCH, MRCP)
Catherine Joynson (Associate Director, Nuffield Council on Bioethics)
Chaired by Dr Mehrunisha Suleman (Director of Medical Ethics and Law Education, Ethox Centre, University of Oxford)

Lunch and exhibition

Hear case studies from our two event Gold Partners:

Using scientific insights to help overcome healthcare challenges 

Presenter: Dr Felix Jackson (medDigital Founder and Medical Director)

Ethos Ethics and Compliance

Presenter: Dr Nick Broughton (Educator and Founding Partner, Ethos Ethics and Compliance Ltd)

Patient Involvement in Medicines Development: from Ethics to Practice

Ms Trishna Bharadia BA(hons), MFPM(Hon) (Visiting Lecturer on Patient Engagement, King’s College London, multi-award-winning health advocate and patient engagement champion)
Dr Lode Dewulf, Dip Pharm Med (Former FFPM and FPM Board Member, and Industry Chief Patient Officer. Now Carer, Patient, Visiting Lecturer and Independent Consultant)

Chaired by Dr Hosnieh Fathi (Director, UK&I Innovative Medicine DAH, BMS)

In keeping with the principles of good patient engagement practice, delegates will have the opportunity to co-create with Lode and Trishna to shape this session. Join us to delve into the why, when, how and what of patient-industry collaboration and take away some practical suggestions to better embed the patient voice into your work.

 Access to medicines and clinical trials/ethical challenges 

Dr Ian Hudson (Senior Advisor, Integrated Development, Gates Foundation)

Chaired by Dr Flic Gabbay (President, FPM)

Access to informative clinical trials and good quality medicines/vaccines is more difficult for some disadvantaged populations around the world. This has been seen very clearly with Covid clinical trials and authorised products, but also applies to medicines for other diseases. Whilst there are various mechanisms in place to address some of the challenges, pharmaceutical physicians have a role to ensure the needs of diverse populations around the world are addressed.

Coffee break and exhibition

Stonier Lecture and Q&A given by the winner of the Stonier Prize

Paediatric populations: trust, trials and tribulations

Dr Sebastian Grant (Clinical Development Associate Medical Director Place of work: Vertex Pharmaceuticals)

Chaired by Professor Peter Stonier 

Communication with patients and the public – getting it right

Fiona Fox (Chief Executive of the Science Media Centre)
Professor Raanan Gillon (Emeritus Professor of Medical Ethics at Imperial College London)
Dr Alison Cave (Chief Safety Officer, Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency)
Dr Amit Aggarwal (Executive Director for Medical Affairs at the ABPI)

Chaired by Dr David Gillen (Chief Medical Officer, Norgine)

Delivering the right information, in the right way, at the right time, is vital for public health. How do we as a community ensure that we are communicating effectively with patients and the public? Can we learn from the lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic? What are the most effective tools for communicating benefit: risk and efficacy of medicines to the public? Can bad communication or lack of information erode trust?

Thank you and close

Dr Flic Gabbay (President, FPM)

A Symposium dinner will be held at Caravan, following the day’s talks and sessions.

The restaurant is located within a 2 minutes’ walk from the Hallam Centre (the Symposium venue).

This will be at an additional fee and available to book as an optional add-on.