Contact us at [email protected] to discuss how you can use this new case study to educate your teams, impress clients and take the grey area out of code.

This case study centres around an advisory board held in Germany in 2015, to see how the media reported this breach click here 

Our training module summaries and simplifies the code breach and via our on-line training platform using multiple choice and free text answers helps the learner understand the reason for the breach and what actions from each party should have been taken to void the breach in the first place.

We learn from our mistakes as well as our successes, using actual real life code breaches allows us to build skills and ensure that we follow the spirit and the letter of code.

We are often asked what happens in the case of a breach of code. 

The answer can be seen publicly with the suspension of Astellas from the ABPI.

Click here to see the full article

Want to know how you, as a member of the Meetings and Events supply chain can, support your client’s compliance adherence policies, contact us for more information.

To address the needs of transparency reporting detailed in clause 24 of the 2016 code of practise, the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry is publishing details of payments and other benefits in kind made by the industry to healthcare professionals, healthcare organisations and other relevant decision makers.

The database can be found here 

The data shows that in 2015, industry spent a total of £340.3m on working with health professionals and organisations, of which £229.3m (67%) is for activities related to the research and development of new medicines.

The remaining £111m (33%) of non-research and development activities is grouped into payments made to individual healthcare professionals and healthcare organisations

Typically an estimated 70% of individual healthcare professionals are giving their consent for this information to be disclosed on a named basis.

Companies spent an estimated average of £1,550 per healthcare professional and around £9,506 per healthcare organisation.

Individual recipients of the above payments can be searched on the database by a number of criteria including the name of the doctor, nurse, pharmacist, healthcare professional or organization and their professional address.

The average amount invested per company is around £3.1m. 84% of companies reported total investments of under £5 million. Companies that paid more than £5 million spent, on average, 71% on research activities.

Comment: This is a big step in transparency and demonstrates that TOV is now an established part of the modern medical meeting. As a sector we are required to be part of that solution, delivering on needs where required and consulting in best practice solutions where we can.

Amendments to the Code of Practice came into force on the 1st January 2016.

There were some amendments and additions to clause 14.2 Travel outside the UK to meetings, clause 22 relevant to disclosure of costs and clause 24 transfers of value reporting specifically clause 24.9.

Become a partner so you can receive a copy of our interpretation of these amendments and what this means for corporate event departments, medical societies, venues and agencies please contact us at [email protected]

Download the full code here, or request our annotated version