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Publication type: report

Medicines Australia Code of Conduct Annual Report 2006/2007
: Medicines Australia 2007 Aug
http://www.medicinesaustralia.com.au/pages/images/Code%20of%20Conduct%20Annual%20Report%202007.pdf


Abstract:

Summary of Complaints
This section of the Code Annual Report contains information on the source of complaints, outcomes from the determination of complaints and sanctions imposed by the Code of Conduct and Appeals Committees.

The number of complaints in 2006/2007 was 42 (27 in 2005/2006) with 55% lodged by pharmaceutical companies. Table 2 provides information on the source of complaints in 2006/2007. In 17.6% of new and finalised complaints all aspects of the complaints were found to be in breach of the Code. In 41.2% of complaints no aspect of the complaint was found to be in breach of the Code. In the remaining 41.2% of complaints the complaints were partly found in breach; that is some aspects of a complaint were found to be in breach whereas other aspects were not found in breach. Table 5 provides information on complaints considered in 2006/2007.

Appeals were lodged in relation to 12 complaints. The Appeals Committee upheld one appeal, upheld some aspects of two appeals and did not uphold any aspect in relation to nine appeals (that is, the Code Committee’s decisions were confirmed in 9 out of 12 appeals).


Notes:

Key Points (as summarized by HS member, Ken Harvey)

More new complaints received: 42 (06-07) compared to 27 (05-06).

Breaches found in 59% (06-07) compared to 67% (05-06).

Sanctions applied for breaches similar both years:

Cease: about 45%

Correction: about 20%

Fine: about 35%

Median fine range $25.000-$49,999 range (max fine $100,000-$149,999)

 

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Far too large a section of the treatment of disease is to-day controlled by the big manufacturing pharmacists, who have enslaved us in a plausible pseudo-science...
The blind faith which some men have in medicines illustrates too often the greatest of all human capacities - the capacity for self deception...
Some one will say, Is this all your science has to tell us? Is this the outcome of decades of good clinical work, of patient study of the disease, of anxious trial in such good faith of so many drugs? Give us back the childlike trust of the fathers in antimony and in the lancet rather than this cold nihilism. Not at all! Let us accept the truth, however unpleasant it may be, and with the death rate staring us in the face, let us not be deceived with vain fancies...
we need a stern, iconoclastic spirit which leads, not to nihilism, but to an active skepticism - not the passive skepticism, born of despair, but the active skepticism born of a knowledge that recognizes its limitations and knows full well that only in this attitude of mind can true progress be made.
- William Osler 1909