Wednesday, 15 February
I am part of the Academy of Medical Royal
Colleges' working group on transparency and working with the
pharmaceutical industry and other providers of services, such as
devices used in medicine. As part of this, we visited the
Netherlands yesterday, to look at the work that the Netherlands
pharmaceutical industry and medical profession are doing. This was
really informative, as they have been able to work successfully
with their Ministry of Health, and will be reaching a point in 2013
of very clear declarations of payments made to doctors and any form
of sponsorship for work done for the pharmaceutical industry, with
a single point access data system for this.
The Academy working group will shortly be
sending out a consultation document, and I intend to deal with this
by sending it out to our members as a formal survey. I think
this is a very important issue, and we must get the views of
as many members as possible.
In the meantime, life around the Health and
Social Care Bill changes from day to day. I will keep you informed
as and when there are developments. But although the Bill is
occupying much of our time, I'm still finding space in my diary for
meetings with people with whom we have shared interests. Earlier
today, I had the pleasure of meeting Juliet Lyons, Director of the
Prison Reform Trust. I also talked to Profsesor Cornelius Katona
about immigration and children, an issue that Juliet Lyons is
equally interested in.
Sue
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