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Regulation of drug promotion ‘should be toughened up’, study finds

January 29, 2016
Medical Communications ABPI Code, Department of Justice, PMCPA, Prescription Medicines Code of Practice Authority, Sunshine Act, marketing, off label, off-label, promotion

The voluntary code of conduct system that regulates the pharma industry’s promotion of off-label prescribing has a ‘limited capacity’ to …

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Astellas investigated for ‘misleading’ PMCPA during ABPI code complaint

December 18, 2015
Medical Communications ABPI Code, Astellas, Astellas Pharma Europe, PMCPA, Prescription Medicines Code of Practice Authority

The Prescription Medicines Code of Practice Authority is investigating Astellas for deliberately providing an ‘incomplete and misleading’ response to a …

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Pharma company accused of ‘bribing’ prescribers slammed by PMCPA

December 17, 2015
Medical Communications ABPI Code, Daily Telegraph, PMCPA, Prescription Medicines Code of Practice Authority, Stirling Anglian

Stirling Anglian, the company at the centre of media criticism for arranging meetings at lavish hotels in an attempt to …

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Bayer takes on Actavis in ABPI code conduct breach

November 26, 2015
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing ABPI, Actavis, Bayer, PMCPA

The Prescription Medicines Code of Practice Authority (PMCPA) has ruled in favour of Bayer in a case brought against Actavis. …

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ABPI

PMPCA rules on multiple pharma code breaches

September 17, 2015
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing ABPI, ABPI Code, PMCPA, Prescriptions Medicine Code of Practice Authority

The industry’s code of conduct regulator has ruled on several alleged breaches of the ABPI code of pharmaceutical conduct by …

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Clinical Trial Transparency – A Personal View

August 24, 2015
Research and Development ABPI, PMCPA, clinical trial transparency, clinical trials, health research authority, transparency

During the time I worked as research, medical and innovation director at the ABPI, between October 2012 and January 2015, …

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Health secretary Jeremy Hunt

Doctors ‘face jail over pharma payments’

August 24, 2015
Sales and Marketing ABPI, Jeremy Hunt, NHS, PMCPA, bribery, doctor payments, health secretary, transparency

Healthcare professionals who have inappropriate financial links with pharma companies will face prosecution and up to 10 years in jail, …

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Code of Practice

Bayer’s complaint over ‘misleading’ Novartis eye drug claims upheld

August 14, 2015
Medical Communications Bayer, Eylea, Lucentis, Novartis, PMCPA, code of conduct

The industry’s code of conduct regulator has ruled in favour of Bayer in a dispute claims made by Novartis when …

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ABPI consulting on Code of Conduct changes

July 31, 2015
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing ABPI Code, PMCPA, Prescription Medicines Code of Practice Authority, code of conduct

The division of the ABPI that sets rules governing industry behaviour is consulting on changes to reflect new rules on …

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Chugai falls foul of ABPI code for close consultant relationship

July 17, 2015
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing ABPI Code, Chugai, PMCPA, Prescription Medicines Code of Practice Authority

Bosses at Chugai have been rapped by the industry’s code of practice regulator, after a senior manager failed to declare …

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Xtandi

Astellas in ‘unacceptable’ Xtandi ABPI code breach

July 3, 2015
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing ABPI Code, Astella, PMCPA, Xtandi

The industry code of conduct regulator has singled out Astellas for ‘particular censure’ for arranging a meeting for UK healthcare …

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Otsuka, ViiV and AstraZeneca named in ABPI code complaints

May 26, 2015
Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing ABPI, AstraZeneca, Otsuka, PMCPA, ViiV

A ‘senior male employee’ of Otsuka Pharmaceuticals “potentially brought the industry into disrepute” by plying a female healthcare professional with …

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Chiesi rapped for ABPI code breach

May 7, 2015
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing ABPI, Chiesi, PMCPA

Chiesi made its sales reps go through a ‘tick-box’ compliance training exercise to get the pharma industry regulator ‘off its …

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Chiesi reprimanded again over Fostair drug

March 3, 2015
Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing ABPI, Chiesi, PMCPA, code, formoterol/beclometason, fostair

Chiesi has been reprimanded after it breached the ABPI’s Code of Practice for its promotion of asthma inhaler Fostair. The …

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Boehringer’s beer breach at German congress

February 20, 2015
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing ABPI, Boehringer, ERS, IPF, PMCPA, breach, code, munich

A complaint made by a pulmonologist against the competence of Boehringer Ingelheim speakers during a congress held in Germany last …

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