Greater drug transparency
August 14, 2012
A NEW Transparency Working
Group taskforce is currently being
put together, made up of
healthcare, consumer and industry
groups, with the aim of developing
new measures to increase
transparency of pharmaceutical
company payments to healthcare
professionals.
Chaired by Medicines Australia
Board member Dr Dominic Barnes,
the group will address the question
of what further transparency
measures should be introduced that
would best serve the community.
So far, Medicines Australia has
invited the AMA, the Royal
Australian College of Physicians,
the Consumers Health Forum and
other key healthcare and consumer
organisations to join the group.
“The working group will evaluate
the different models for further
transparency and identify an
effective mechanism for ensuring
additional transparency of what is a
vital relationship for the effective
operation of the health system,”
said Medicines Australia chief
executive Dr Brendan Shaw.
“Industry engagement with
doctors and other healthcare
professionals is important because
patients want to be sure that their
doctors know how to use the
medicines they’re being prescribed.
“Transparency is critical because
it builds public confidence in the
valuable and necessary
engagements industry has with
consumers and healthcare
professionals,” he added.
Speaking about the Group’s
future actions, Shaw said there are
a number of possible models for
future transparency to consider,
and that the taskforce’s key task
will be to recommend a model that
is practical and provides consumers
with the information they need.
The working group will meet
monthly from September 2012 and
will report to the boards of the
working group member organisations
by December 2013, with interim
reports every six months.
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