Read Statements from the PSC and MHRA
Patient Safety Commissioner Professor Henrietta Hughes
‘I welcome the strengthened focus on the patient voice in the 10-year plan. The new hosting arrangement for the Patient Safety Commissioner creates a fantastic opportunity to ensure the continued focus on patient voice in the work of the MHRA and help it achieve its patient safety mission.
‘Patients and the public can be confident that my role will remain independent of government and that their views will continue to be raised with the relevant bodies.
‘I will continue to amplify the voice of patients into the heart of government and effect change as I have done for the past three years.’
MHRA Chief Executive Lawrence Tallon
‘I am delighted to host Henrietta and her team at the MHRA. We already collaborate on public and patient safety matters for medicines and medical products and see this as a positive and timely opportunity to extend that close working relationship.
‘I have been clear that the MHRA’s current and future priorities will continue to champion patient safety and look forward to working with the Patient Safety Commissioner to ensure that the voice of patients, and this work, remains a core priority in all of the Agency’s delivery.’
More details regarding the hosting of the Patient Safety Commissioner transitioning to MHRA will be provided in due course.