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Andrew Jack (BMJ pharmaceuticals correspondent). Bring me sunshine: EU drug companies make payments to doctors public.
BMJ EU Drug companies make payments to doctor public

Excerpts:

...... The European pharmaceutical industry has pledged to release details of the payments it makes to doctors and healthcare organisations by 2016, in the latest move towards bringing “sunshine” to funding arrangements that critics argue distort prescribing practices......

..... It comes at a time of growing debate and research suggesting that even modest payments and incentives to doctors can influence their choice of medicines......

..... It also follows a surge in voluntary and legislative efforts around the world to boost transparency in links between drug manufacturers and doctors, partly driven by substantial fines for aggressive marketing, including GlaxoSmithKline’s record $3bn (£2bn; €2.3bn) penalty agreed in the US last year.....

...... Under the Affordable Care Act in the US, companies will from this autumn be required to release information on payments to doctors. Ad hoc disclosures forced by individual settlements in recent years show the scale of payments: a dozen companies in 2012 alone paid more than $1bn.....

...... In the UK, the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) has this year begun releasing aggregated information, which showed £40m in payments during 2012....