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Code of Practice update to reflect legal changes

May 11, 2012
Medical Communications ABPI, Code of Practice, MHRA, PMCPA, patient organisations

The UK pharma industry’s Code of Practice is set to be updated to bring it into line with changes in …

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Pharma’s international code of conduct extended

March 1, 2012
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing Code of Practice, IFPMA, code of conduct

Pharma companies must adhere to a new stronger code of practice, no matter where they are in the world. The …

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Digital Pharma: Twitter slip-up shouldn’t silence pharma

September 9, 2011
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing Bayer, Code of Practice, Digital Pharma blog, PMCPA, Twitter

Bayer UK was recently ruled to have breached the ABPI Code of Practice by promoting prescription-only medicines to the general …

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Digital Pharma: Bayer tweets breach ABPI Code of Practice

July 5, 2011
Medical Communications Bayer, Code of Practice, Digital Pharma blog, PMCPA, Twitter, medical communications news, social media

Bayer’s use of Twitter has caused the first social media breach of the ABPI Code of Practice. Code regulator the …

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ABPI Code of Practice

UK pharma reassured over dealings with health bodies

May 3, 2011
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing 2011 ABPI Code, Code of Practice, medical communications, risk-sharing

UK pharma has been reassured over the use of risk-sharing schemes with health bodies. The latest revisions to the ABPI …

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ABPI Code of Practice

Digital Pharma: UK gets social media guidance

April 5, 2011
Medical Communications Code of Practice, Digital Pharma blog, PMCPA, digital marketing

The UK’s Code of Practice regulator has issued guidance on social media and other digital communications tools. It is the …

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ABPI Code of Practice

Medical bodies back ABPI Code changes

March 4, 2011
Medical Communications ABPI, ABPI Code of Practice, Code of Practice, GMC, INFORCE, Nottingham, Royal College of Physicians, industry relations, trust

Leading medical organisations have signed a joint declaration backing the forthcoming changes to UK pharma’s self-regulatory Code of Practice. In …

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ABPI Code of Practice

Boehringer’s Pradaxa advertising breaches Code

January 21, 2011
Medical Communications ABPI, Bayer Schering Pharma, Boehringer Ingelheim, Code of Practice, PMCPA, Sanofi-Aventis

Boehringer Ingelheim has fallen foul of the ABPI Code of Practice on five counts in a row over an advertisement …

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Grünenthal breaches Code with off-label promotion

September 28, 2010
Medical Communications Code of Practice, Grunenthal, PMCPA, Versatis

Grünenthal has been severely criticised in two rulings by UK pharma’s self-regulatory body the PMCPA for promoting off-label use of …

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Outdated HRT website breaches Code

September 22, 2010
Medical Communications ABPI, Code of Practice, PMCPA, Pfizer, Wyeth

A website which contained outdated information about the risk of using hormone replacement therapy has been found in breach of …

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Plans for greater transparency with KOLs

August 6, 2010
Medical Communications ABPI, BMA, Code of Practice, KOL, MHRA, PMCPA

Pharmaceutical companies in the UK will have to declare the amount of money paid to its healthcare professionals who act …

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UK pharma needs online pharmacovigilance guidance, says Digital Pioneer

July 16, 2010
Medical Communications Code of Practice, Sublime Digital, digital pharma

Pharma companies need more help from UK authorities on the issue of online pharmacovigilance, according to the winner of the …

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Digital Pharma: Byte-sized roundup

July 12, 2010
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing Code of Practice, Digital Pharma blog, digi game, disease awareness campaigns

This week’s roundup includes a sexual health computer game, a powerful new search tool, US health apps and a reprimand …

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Astellas Pharma censured over advisory boards

July 9, 2010
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing Astellas, Code of Practice, PMCPA

Astellas has been the subject of ‘naming and shaming’ advertisements in three medical journals after advisory board meetings it ran …

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New ABPI Code for 2011

July 2, 2010
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing ABPI, Code of Practice, nhs partnerships

New guidance on the way pharma companies should approach marketing themselves to doctors are among the key changes in a …

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