Multistakeholder perspectives on patient and public collaboration in medicines development: highlights of the spring 2024 patient engagement workshop

On May 9, 2024, the Centre for Pharmaceutical Medicine Research (CPMR) of King’s College, London (KCL), UK hosted a ‘Spring 2024 Patient Engagement Workshop’. The multi-stakeholder workshop aimed to address challenges and seek ways to support evidence-based implementation of patient engagement in medicines development and research. Here we summarize some of the key sessions that took place throughout the day. Welcome address Professor Stuart Jones (Centre for Pharmaceutical Medicine Research, KCL, UK), introducing CPMR, emphasized its commitment to improving medicine development and lifecycle processes for the benefit of patients, health systems, researchers, and industry. He expressed the hope that, “Talking about patient...