The objective behind the one-day workshop was to find a broadly accepted approach to defining unmet medical needs (UMN) among paediatric patients, in order to make better and safer medicines for children, and to make sure they are available and affordable.

By reading the report of the workshop you will see that the outcome was an outline of potential guiding principles for defining UMN in children, and a programme for testing the principles in selected therapeutic areas over the course of 2020.

Among the key recommendations were that, since no one-size-fits-all approach can work at present, progress should be made through addressing UMN by speciality, with an accent on treatment categories or gaps, but not on products.