PA Consulting

PA Consulting is a multinational consulting company covering a broad range of industries. In healthcare, PA works with both private and governmental clients on a variety of projects, particularly in the fields of of advanced digital technology and healthcare management.

Global Headquarters
PA Knowledge Limited
10 Bressenden Place
London
SW1E 5DN
United Kingdom

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T: +44 20 7333 5865
F: +44 20 7333 5050

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PA Consulting is a multinational consulting company covering a broad range of industries. In healthcare, PA works with both private and governmental clients on a variety of projects, particularly in the fields of of advanced digital technology and healthcare management.

The company has more than 45 years’ experience in the design, development, characterisation and evaluation of drug delivery devices, with dedicated inhaled and parenteral drug delivery teams, covering both conventional and smart connected devices. Services include complete device design and development, human factors studies, device identification, selection and customisation, device strategy, product characterisation, combination product project support, development of custom test equipment, design verification programmes, manufacturing process innovation and transfer to manufacturing.

For more information, visit: www.paconsulting.com/industries/life-sciences/drug-delivery.

COMPANY STATEMENT

At PA Consulting, we believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future. As strategies, technologies and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity. We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists.

Articles by PA Consulting

Dr Kate Hudson-Farmer

REIMAGINING AUTOINJECTOR CONNECTIVITY

Kate Hudson-Farmer and Simon Hall discuss a new smartphone-based connectivity solution for autoinjectors that requires no additional hardware and works with most autoinjectors and smartphones.

MAKING SUSTAINABILITY BY DESIGN THE LINTEL OF SUSTAINABLE INHALER DEVELOPMENT

Phil Seeney, Philip Winkworth and Craig Nelson provide an insight into sustainability developments in the pharmaceutical industry, with a focus on inhalables.

THE OPTIONS FOR CREATING A MORE SUSTAINABLE INHALER

With growing pressure to tackle climate change, Phil Seeney looks at the arguments in favour of creating more sustainable inhalers, and examines potential strategies to accomplish it.

DEVICE DESIGN CONSULTANCIES JOIN FORCES, STEP-UP TO THE COVID-19 VENTILATOR CHALLENGE

Leading device design consultancies Cambridge Consultants, PA Consulting, Sagentia, Team Consulting and TTP , with industrial assistance from MetLase, have joined forces to answer the UK government's call for the rapid development and manufacture of vital ventilators for patients suffering with severe symptoms of COVID-19.

Dr Jeffrey Philippson

THE INTERFACE BETWEEN PREFILLED SYRINGE AND AUTOINJECTOR – A DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK

Jeffrey Philippson and Tom Kemp outline the challenges for autoinjector developers at the interface between the device and the prefilled syringe – and describe a framework to formalise analysis of the interface.

Dr Philip Lance

THE EYES HAVE IT – EYE TRACKING EVOLUTION IN MEDICAL DEVICE DEVELOPMENT

Philip Lance and Phil Seeney discuss the recent surge in the use of eye-tracking technology in the field of human factors, providing an overview of the technique’s history and how it may be applied to medical devices in the future.

Dr Kian Min Lim

LISTEN TO YOUR INHALER, IT MIGHT BE TELLING YOU SOMETHING

Kian Min Lim and David Harris discuss how tailored algorithms can accurately detect inhalers’ acoustic signatures, effectively adding connectivity without having to add a chip to the inhaler.

Dr Charley Henderson

NEW TECHNOLOGIES FOR LOW-COST CONNECTED DRUG DELIVERY DEVICES

Charley Henderson provides an overview of the various wireless connectivity options that are now available for devices and looks at how the corresponding electronic system costs can be reduced to drive widespread adoption.

LEARNING TO WALK BEFORE WE RUN

David Harris highlights basic problems with inhalers that persist today, and describes why - as the industry looks increasingly towards developing "smart" and connected inhalers - it is important to remember to solve these basic problems.

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