CHF slams MA code

July 7, 2014

The Consumers Health Forum (CHF) claims that Medicines Australia (MA) is attempting to put in place watered down transparency guidelines which fail to address the issue of companies “schmoozing doctors to influence prescribing.” MA submitted its latest Code of Conduct to the ACCC last week (PD 03 Jul 14), with the CHF describing the new version as “disappointing”. CHF ceo, Adam Stankevicius, claims that loopholes in the code mean that “senior medical experts will still be able to receive tens of thousands of dollars in speakers’ fees, sponsored travel and other perks... without these individual practitioner payments being disclosed.” The ACCC is currently considering the new Code.

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CHF slams MA code

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