Thursday 28 March 2019

NHS joint working with industry is out of public sight

NHS joint working with industry is out of public sight NHS organisations are entering into working partnerships with drug companies, but the details, and even existence, of many of these deals are not being made available to the public, a BMJ investigation has found.

With government encouragement, the number of “joint working arrangements” is growing in England, and they brought more than £7.5m (€8.7m; $9.9m) into the health service in 2016 and 2017. Examples include several projects to review the medications of people with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and more than 20 that focus on patients with age-related macular degeneration. But many of these agreements ignore official guidance that urges openness and transparency. The BMJ

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