Code of conduct

EFPIA statement on Healthcare professionals

Brussels, 16 Ocotober 2012: EFPIA is committed to building trust in how the pharmaceutical industry conducts its business and interacts with key stakeholders. For that reason we have strongly supported Commissioner Tajani’s initiative on Corporate Social Responsibility in the pharmaceutical sector, with its emphasis on the industry’s relationships with its key stakeholders. One of the most important relationships that the industry has is with healthcare professionals (HCPs).

e4ethics

Leaders of industry have asked that EFPIA coordinate monitoring of European events, by setting up an on-line platform including pre-assessment reports of events sponsored by industry and attended by healthcare professionals (HCP) in regard of EFPIA’s HCP Code, in particular in regard of Article 9 provisions of this Code on “events & hospitality”. Reports posted on the EFPIA e4ethics website will be shared with corporate compliance officers, the national ethics groups, and congress and meeting organisers to promote compliance with industry standards.

EFPIA Code of Practice on relationships between the pharmaceutical industry and patient organisations (Amended by decision of the General Assembly in June 2011)

14 June 2011, EFPIA's General Assembly has approved the amended EFPIA Code of Practice on relationships between the pharmaceutical industry and patient organisations which is effective from 1 January 2012.

The amended code requires companies to disclose the monetary value of financial support and of invoiced costs (art. 5), includes a new article on 'contracted sevices' (art. 6) and amends art. 8 (events and hospitality).

EFPIA Code of Practice on the promotion of prescription-only medicines to, and interactions with, healthcare professionals(Amended following Statutory General Assembly approval of 14 June 2011)

14 June 2011, EFPIA's General Assembly has approved the amended Code of Practice on the promotion of prescription-only medicines to, and interactions with, healthcare professionals.
The amended code is effective from 1 January 2012.

National Member Associations' Codes of Practice on the promotion of prescription-only medicines to, and interactions with, healthcare professionals

Healthcare Professionals

EFPIA and its members are conscious of the importance of providing accurate, fair and objective information about medicinal products so that rational decisions can be made as to their use.
 
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