UK needs database of payments from industry to doctors, conference hears

Doctors in the United Kingdom should be obliged to adhere to a code of conduct on relationships with industry and to declare their interactions with drug and medical device companies on a publicly accessible searchable database maintained by the profession, a joint meeting of the Royal College of Physicians and The BMJ has concluded.

At an all day meeting on 9 October delegates resolved to convene a working group to draft a code of conduct governing interactions with industry. The aim is to publish it for consultation by the end of March 2015 and produce a final version …