Some of the payments is via an intermediate station in the form of commercial, sponsored continuing education agencies. According to research from De Volkskrant .
Those agencies organize annually dozens of courses where doctors hold paid lectures to their colleagues. Doctors can therefore sometimes earn tens of thousands of euros.
They are hired and paid through the continuing education office and not by the pharmacists, who firmly sponsoring the meetings. By in such a way circumvent the pharmaceutical companies the transparency register, as indirect payments need not be mentioned in it.
Effects
The Transparency Register has been correctly set up four years ago to show how much money every doctor gets from the pharmaceutical industry. This should provide insight wherever possible existence of influencing doctors
Four companies after asking De Volkskrant announced that payments to doctors registered yet. The umbrella Nefarma will consult with the registry of the payments are not included. “We do not give the impression that we are looking for a detour,” said a spokeswoman
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