“Medical specialists received millions of pharmacy ‘- Focus on News

Saturday, 3 September 2016 – 19:33 Update: 03-09-2016 21:41

the newspaper reports that got more than forty percent of rheumatologists and urologists money pharmacy last year and more than thirty percent of pulmonologists and internists and 25 percent of cardiologists. Doctors organization KNMG had previously not know that only a few percent of physicians would earn. The newspaper took the survey payments of 13,000 specialists in sixteen disciplines examined. It shows that were paid almost 2400 physicians. Last year they received 5.6 million euros from the pharmaceutical companies.

The pharmaceutical paid doctors who attended conferences 2.2 million for their travel and accommodation expenses. Doctors were 1.4 million for spreekbeurten.Tevens compensation payments were considered to hospitals, patient groups and professional associations. Such payments showed that all branches of the Dutch health care sponsored by the pharmaceutical industry. Most of the money goes to the university hospitals: seven out of eight received last year more than one million of the industry, the newspaper

The Health Care Inspectorate has a few months ago in the Transparency Register. the data retrieved from the ten most bijverdienende doctors. They also wanted the data on the maximum amounts per job. It appears from the Times survey shows that some specialists last year received more than ten thousand euros as speakers compensation or reward for advice. The newspaper reacts health economist and professor emeritus Guus Writers: “The specialist’s independence is compromised. Let’s pull the integrity requirements for officials and politicians to medical specialists. An alderman is not at the expense of a construction company to an event, a specialist does not cost a pharmaceutical company.

Noteworthy are the substantial payments to a number of professional associations. So cardiologists association received NVVC together more than six tonnes twelve pharmacists.