Prescription starter packs should be banned and payments to individual doctors should be made public under a revised pharma industry code of conduct, Medicines Australia has been told.
In a submission to Medicines Australia’s Code of Conduct review, (link here) Sydney haematologist Professor Ian Kerridge has called for transparency around pharmaceutical company sponsorship to be brought into line with the US.
He says that starter packs for GPs should be banned or at least Medicines Australia should be required to regularly collect and report data on the “extent, nature and distribution” of the prescription products provided free to doctors.
And he suggests that the Code should not be supporting Product Familiarisation Programs.
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