About us

Overview

Effective Medical is a full service agency with expertise in all aspects of pharmacovigilance and regulatory writing services. We can assist throughout Phases I-IV of the drug development lifecycle and work both directly with pharmaceutical/biopharmaceutical firms and indirectly partnering alongside major Clinical Research Organisations (CRO’s). We provide a flexible approach and can tailor all services to suit individual needs.

As a privately owned organisation, we are able to modify our operating approach to suit a customer’s specific requirements. With some customer and partner engagements, we are used as an ‘overflow’; making services available at short notice when required to assist in meeting very tight deadlines with complex drug submissions. Other customers and partners prefer to outsource entire programmes or work to us. We will flex to suit your needs.

Philosophy

Our approach and philosophy can be summed up in three words: quality, speed and flexibility. Our customers and partners are often operating under restricted time conditions, often with a complex data landscape and have no time for multiple reviews, re-submissions and quality assurance checkpoints. Simply stated, output needs to be right, first time and completed to the highest standards.

At Effective Medical, we employ only the highest quality of staff and have structured our company with both quality and speed of delivery at our core. All writing staff are experienced pharma or medical professionals previously holding positions at pharmaceuticals or CRO’s. Effective Medical never uses low-cost or offshore regions.

Partnerships

Our customer relationships are of paramount importance to us. In every instance we view our customers as partners. Whether Effective Medical staff are embedded within customer teams or operate as an entirely outsourced unit, treating our relationships as partnerships ensures a healthy, open and trusting dialogue. In turn this ensures we are able to deliver the quality of work we strive for.

Diverse Customer Base

Effective Medical works with a wide base of clients and partners including pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical, clinical research and general healthcare firms. Ranging from multinational brand-name firms marketing products throughout the world to niche research firms, Effective Medical retains customers based in the United States, Europe and Asia. Contact us to see how we can help you meet your regulatory obligations.

Integrity

Working within the drug development world ensures Effective Medical operate with the highest standards of integrity and ethics, holding ourselves up for scrutiny to our customers, partners and employees throughout.

Our ethical policies span, but are not restricted to, the following areas:

  • Business Integrity and Accountability

    Ensuring that we treat our customers and partners as we would expect to be treated ourselves and providing systems and processes that enable us to demonstrate our standards to our counterparties (within the constraints of confidentiality). Holding all employees accountable for the standards and regulatory requirements expected of them.

  • Security and Standards

    Ensuring we have the IT and procedural security policies in place to protect our customer, partner and employee data (including that covered under the HITECH act and Personal Identifiable Information) and articulated in Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) documents that can be made available under non-disclosure.

  • Employment Ethics

    Providing an equal opportunities employment framework and freedom for our employees to grow and expand their skills. Supporting our employees with a forum for open discussion and ensuring they have the tools they need for their roles. Providing our employees with the freedom to act as ambassadors for their community under our One&One Programme.

  • Environmental Issues

    Ensuring we hold ourselves to the highest standards of environmental standards ranging from appropriate travel policies through to low energy usage and waste management.

Background

During the economic crisis, many pharmaceutical and research firms retrenched back to their core business. As they looked to focus more on drug or medical device development, many operations seen as peripheral were scaled back or outsourced to low cost centres. One component of the drug development process often scaled back was the regulatory and pharmacovigilance step. In many cases this step was outsourced to low-cost centres resulting in diminished writing quality standards.

Recognising a need to provide regulatory and pharmacovigilance writing services of the highest quality standards, quickly and with minimum operational overheads, Left Pen Medical Limited was formed in 2012.

As the firm grew and offered more diverse services, including scientific support and regulatory advice, the firm was rebranded as Effective Medical Limited.

Effective Medical now boasts customers from large pharmaceutical and biopharmaceuticals to small niche research firms operating throughout the three main regulated regions, the United States, Europe and Japan.

To find out more about how Effective Medical can help you, get in touch with us today!