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Effective communication channels are the key to a successful PvPI. Communicating safety information to patients and healthcare professionals is a public health responsibility and is essential for achieving the objectives of pharmacovigilance in terms of promoting the rational, safe and effective use of medicine, preventing harm from adverse reactions and contributing to the protection of public health. Communication in PvPI improves patient care, understanding, promotes transparency and accountability.
The following chart depicts the movement of information between the key stakeholders and ensures the continuous bidirectional nature of the transfer of data, information, and knowledge.
All the communications with WHO-UMC are managed by NCC. All the issues associated with drug safety are reported to CDSCO which further takes appropriate regulatory decision and action on the basis of recommendation of NCC. The objective of communication in PvPI aims to provide evidence based information on the safe and effective use of medicine and regulatory status of medicines in India as well as globally. For this PvPI is using different modes of communications as follow:
It includes press release and press briefings which are primarily intended for journalists. The Secretary-Cum-Scientific Director, IPC is the only designated authority to correspond with media, related to all activities and issues of PvPI.
Website: A website is a key tool for the stakeholders including patients and health professionals. NCC and CSDCO shall ensure that all important safety information should be published on the websites under their control.
Newsletter: To communicate the findings and regulatory status of medicine in India as well as globally to the stakeholders, IPC-NCC publishes newsletter i.e. “PvPI Newsletter” three issues in a year. This newsletter is for everyone concerned with the issues of pharmacovigilance which provides practical information and advice on drug safety and information about emerging safety issues. The newsletter can also be downloaded from IPC website www.ipc.gov.in under Pharmacovigilance Program of India.
A complete, effective communication is a message which
Simple transmission of a message in one direction (usually outwards from the centre) is not a communication; it is essentially a random and irresponsible gesture with low probability of success. Communication is an interactive, reciprocal, continuous process.
In the cycle of effective communications, these are some of the questions which need asking and answering (most of these discussed below):
This quality is at the heart of all good communications. Empathy is the ability to grasp, understand and feel what it is like to be someone else:
If we have a message for anybody at all (a child, an elderly person, doctors or pharmacists, for example), then we must know who they are, their circumstances when they receive our message, the ways in which they are likely to perceive and react to our message. They must feel that we understand them; that our communication recognises who they are.
Empathy is essentially an act of mature emotional and imaginative reaching out. It comes from listening and observation, and, of course, from research (see below), but also from a disposition of humility: my urgent needs to communicate are secondary to, and must be determined by, my understanding of the nature of my audience and what they need.
Every audience has different characteristics and needs. Communications must be tailored, shaped, focussed for a particular audience. It is obvious that a message for paediatricians is going to be very different from the message for the parents of sick children. But within the target group of parents, for example, there will also be many different groups with different needs; amongst them, parents who are:
Obviously printed materials are not much use for blind or partially sighted people; language which is suitable for educated people may mean nothing to those with poor literacy skills; a country’s mother tongue may be useless for substantial groups of immigrants. So, one message, in one form, delivered by one method, is likely to miss very large numbers of people.
You might think that an audience category like ‘doctor’ or ‘nurse’ would be simpler to deal with, but even here there will be large differences in the characteristics of individuals. Some of these include:
So, a highly motivated health professional, committed to advancing knowledge and career, will respond very differently from someone who is tired and demoralised and struggling against great pressure. They require different approaches, or approaches which implicitly acknowledge and respond to the differences.
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