Why the UK needs payment transparency legislation
As published in the BMJ, Open Access, 7 January 2025:
Tag: Medical Industrial Complex
‘To influence others by offering money’
As published in the Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin, Volume 60, Number 4, April 2022:
Mapping conflict of interests
The following original research, which maps conflicts of interest, has been published in the current BMJ. It reveals that industry is FLOURISHING in the ‘healthcare ecosystem’ and concludes that: “Policies … Continue reading Mapping conflict of interests
COMPETING INTERESTS
This BMJ Feature article on Competing Interests was published on the 6th January 2021 and can be read in full here. In 2013 I raised a petition with the Scottish … Continue reading COMPETING INTERESTS
‘CEP calls for UK Sunshine Act’
Last week the Council for Evidenced-Based Psychiatry (CEP) called for “the implementation of a UK Sunshine Act to make transparent the financial relationships between doctors and pharmaceutical companies & the … Continue reading ‘CEP calls for UK Sunshine Act’
New Zealand – Let the sunshine in: making industry payments to doctors transparent
The following paper was recently sent to me by Professor Tim Stokes. It is an excellent summary of the situation in New Zealand. A good deal of my Scottish forebears … Continue reading New Zealand – Let the sunshine in: making industry payments to doctors transparent
Medical education and economies of influence
This reply to Dr McCartney’s recent editorial “Forever indebted to pharma – doctors must take control of our own education” was published yesterday in the BMJ rapid-responses. I felt it … Continue reading Medical education and economies of influence
“All in the past”: well, no.
“All in the past” well, no. To play this short film please click here or on the image above. British Psychiatrists continue to be “educated” by paid opinion leaders. Here … Continue reading “All in the past”: well, no.