Medical device firms paid UK health organisations {euro}37m in three years, study finds

Medical device companies made over €37m (£32m; $39m) of education related payments to UK health organisations, including the NHS, between 2017 and 2019, researchers have reported.1Researchers from RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences and the University of Bath used the MedTech Europe transparency platform to look at reported payments and found that in three years 116 companies made payments totalling over €425m across 53 countries.The paper, published in Health Policy and Technology, showed that the amount paid out rose from just under €94m in 2017 to just over €175m in 2019. Just 10 countries accounted for 94% of all payments, while 10 companies accounted for 80% of all payments made.The authors have highlighted “many shortcomings” with the disclosure system, including that payments for consultancy and expenses are not included, and called for a new Europe wide, publicly mandated disclosure system for both the medical device and pharmaceutical industries.“There is…
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