HVM’s new report into the lifecycle of medicines in the UK is published today. It offers fresh insight into how medicines can better meet the needs of the people who develop, prescribe, and take them. 

Better Medicines: Public and Professional Views on the Lifecycle from Discovery to Taking Medicines, was led by researchers at the University of Liverpool, Manchester Metropolitan University, and University College London, who commissioned Hopkins Van Mil to facilitate in-depth workshops and engagement activities with members of the public and healthcare professionals across the UK. 

Hopkins Van Mil was launched 20 years ago - on 25th May 2005. In this article we celebrate our expertise in qualitative research, deliberation and bringing people together to inform the future.

From April to June 2024 a Citizens’ Jury of 30 people from across England spent eight weeks deliberating on whether there should be a change in the law on assisted dying in England. Today the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, which commissioned the project, has published an interim report, presenting the Jury findings in their own words.

The findings of a foundational UK public dialogue are published today, Wednesday 25th October 2023, as part of the Wellcome-funded Human Developmental Biology Initiative (HDBI). The HDBI is an ambitious scientific endeavour to advance our understanding of human development. The dialogue project was co-funded by UKRI Sciencewise programme and conducted by Hopkins Van Mil.

HVM is currently working with Understanding Patient Data, NHS England and the Ada Lovelace Institute on a programme of deliberative public engagement sponsored by the Office of Life Sciences (OLS). The topic is fascinating and complex: exploring a fair partnership between the NHS and researchers, charities and industry on uses of NHS data.