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Index

Choose a letter from the index to search the Code Of Practice

Key
  • links to Clauses in the Code
  • links to supplementary information to a Clause in the Code
  • links to a paragraph in the Constitution and Procedure
A
  • abbreviated advertisements
  • ABPI (the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry) Board of Management
  • absolute risk, reference to
  • administrative charges
    • appeals against number of
      • determination of charges
        • in cases
        • in relation to admissions
        • in co-promotion
        • levels of
      • failure to pay
      • payment of in relation to rulings
        • by Appeal Board
        • by Panel
  • administrative staff, promotion to
  • admissions by pharmaceutical companies
  • advance notification of new products
  • adverse reactions
    • claims about
    • need to consult SPC
    • references to in prescribing information
    • reporting mechanisms
  • advertising to the public
  • advice on Code
  • all-embracing claims
  • amendments to Code and Constitution and Procedure
  • amount of advertising in journals
  • animal data, use of
  • appeals against Panel rulings
    • appeals by complainants
    • appeals by respondent companies
    • appearance before Appeal Board
    • withdrawal of appeals
  • approval of promotional material – see certification
  • artwork, illustrations, graphs and tables
    • general
    • abbreviated advertisements
    • references to sources when taken from published studies
    • use of statistical information
  • audio, audio-visual material and interactive data systems etc
    • abbreviated advertisements not permitted
    • certification
    • prescribing information requirements
  • audit of company’s procedures
    • charges for
  • automated calling systems
B
  • benefit/risk profile
  • benefits
  • black triangle symbol
    • in abbreviated advertisements
    • in material intended for patients
  • Blue Guide
  • bonus stock – see samples
  • brand names, use of other companies’
  • Bribery Act
  • briefing material for representatives
  • British Medical Association
    • case reports
    • consultation with
      • on appointment of Appeal Board independent registered medical practitioners
      • on Code
    • Medical Ethics Today
C
  • carers, hospitality to
  • case preparation manager
  • case reports
  • certification
    • general
    • audio and audio-visual material etc
    • content of certificate
    • educational material relating to diseases or medicines
    • Internet
    • joint working material
    • meetings held outside UK
    • non-promotional material relating to the provision of medical and educational goods and services
    • notification of signatories
    • patient organisation material
    • patient support programme material
    • preservation of certificates
    • promotional aids
    • promotional material
    • promotional material at international conferences in UK
    • qualifications and experience of signatories
  • children in advertisements
  • clinical assessments
  • clinical and scientific opinion
    • current views of authors
    • disparaging clinical and scientific opinion
    • emerging opinion
  • clinical trials, disclosure of details
  • clinical trial data, use of
  • Codes of Practice for Advertising Over-the-Counter Medicines of the PAGB
  • Code of Practice Appeal Board
    • Constitution and Procedure
    • independent members to be in a majority
    • membership
    • power to publicly reprimand
    • power to require audit
    • power to require a corrective statement
    • power to require pre-vetting
    • power to require recovery of items
    • reports from Code of Practice Panel
    • reports to ABPI Board
    • reports to, consideration of
    • rulings
  • Code of Practice levy
  • Code of Practice Panel
    • Constitution and Procedure
    • membership
    • power to suspend advertising on complaints from Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
    • power to suspend material or activities in certain circumstances pending an appeal
    • reports to Appeal Board
    • rulings
  • Commission on Human Medicines, Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency and licensing authority, references to
  • comparisons
    • general
    • disparaging references, prohibition on
    • hanging comparisons
    • price/cost comparisons
  • competitions & quizzes
  • Competition and Markets Authority consultation with on Code
  • complaints procedure
    • complaints from Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
    • confidentiality of complainants – see introduction to Constitution and Procedure
    • dealing with complaints
    • making complaints general – see introduction to Constitution and Procedure
      • general – see introduction to Constitution and Procedure
      • by pharmaceutical companies
    • withdrawal of complaints
  • conciliation between companies
  • conferences – see meetings
  • confidence in the industry
  • consultants
    • disclosure of payments to
    • from patient organisations
    • use of
  • continuing professional development meetings and courses
  • contracts with institutions etc
  • co-promotion
  • corporate advertising, examination of
  • cost comparisons
  • criticism in media
  • current views of authors
D
  • data on file, provision of
  • date of prescribing information
  • date of promotional material
  • delivery of items by representatives
  • discounts – see trade practices
  • discredit to the industry
  • disease awareness campaigns
  • Disease Awareness Campaigns Guidelines
  • disguised promotion
  • disparaging references, prohibition on
  • distribution of promotional material
  • doctors, use of names and photographs
  • donations
    • in lieu of hospitality
    • to charities
    • to institutions etc
    • see also prohibition on financial inducements
  • DVDs for health professessionals
  • dynamic content for websites
E
  • economic evaluation of medicines
  • educational goods and services, provision of
  • EFPIA Code on the Promotion of Prescription – Only Medicines to, and Interactions with, Healthcare Professionals
  • EFPIA Code of Practice on Relationships between the Pharmaceutical Industry and Patient Organisations
  • EFPIA Code on Disclosure of Transfers of Value by Pharmaceutical Companies to Healthcare Professionals and Healthcare Organisations
  • electronic data communications
  • email, use of
  • emoticons, use of
  • employee responsible for ensuring compliance with Code
  • employees, current and prospective, information for
  • Europe – definition of term
  • European Directive
  • exaggerated or all-embracing claims
  • examinations for representatives
  • exhibitions and exhibition panels, prescribing information requirements
  • experience programmes
  • extremes of format, size & cost of promotional material
F
  • facsimile, use of
  • films – see audio-visual material and interactive data systems etc
  • financial inducements, prohibition of
  • free goods – see samples
  • frequency
    • of mailings
    • of mailings for new medicines
    • of calls by representatives
G
  • General Medical Council
  • General Pharmaceutical Council
  • gifts
  • grants to institutions etc
  • graphs – see artwork, illustrations, graphs and tables
  • guidelines on company procedures relating to the Code of Practice
H
  • hanging comparisons
  • health professionals, use of names and photographs
  • health professions, criticism of
  • healthcare organisation – definition of term
  • healthy volunteer studies, use of data from
  • high standards, maintenance of
  • hospitality
    • limit on cost of meal
  • Human Medicines Regulations
I
  • IFPMA Code of Practice
  • illustrations
    • see artwork, illustrations, graphs and tables
  • inducements
  • information to the public
  • inserts in journals
    • cannot be abbreviated advertisements
    • size of
    • see also si to
  • interactive data systems
    • see audio, audio-visual material and interactive data systems etc
  • international conferences, symposia and meetings
    • see meetings
  • international journals, advertising in
  • Internet
    • general
    • abbreviated advertisements not permitted
    • access to promotional material by public
    • certification
    • journals
    • prescribing information requirements
  • in-vitro data, use of
  • items delivered by representatives
J
  • joint ventures & co-promotion
  • joint working with the NHS
  • journal advertising
    • advertising in international journals
    • specific requirements
    • see also abbreviated advertisements in professional publications
K
  • knocking copy
L
  • labelling
    • labelling of medicines
    • labelling of samples
  • legislation
  • levy
    • failure to pay
    • level of
  • licensing authority, references to
  • limitations on journal advertising
  • links to prescribing information
  • loans,long term or permanent
M
  • mailings
    • frequency and number of
    • mailed medicines
    • mailing lists
  • margins – see trade practices
  • market extension
  • market research
    • disclosure of payments
    • general
    • guidelines – The Legal & Ethical Guidelines for Healthcare Market Research
  • market share claims
  • marketing authorization
  • meals – limit on cost
  • media
    • complaints arising from
    • relations with
  • medical and educational goods and services, provision of
  • medicines
    • distributed in hospitals
    • handled by representatives
    • posted
  • Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency
    • case reports
    • complaints from
    • consultation with
      • on appointment of Appeal Board independent members
      • on Code
    • Disease Awareness Campaigns Guidelines
    • MHRA Drug Safety Update
    • references to
    • submission of briefing material
    • submission of certificates
    • submission of names of signatories for promotional material
    • The Blue Guide Advertising and Promotion of Medicines in the UK
  • meetings general
    • attendance by administrative staff
    • certification of meetings held outside the UK
    • continuing professional development (CPD) meetings and courses
    • exhibitions and exhibition panels, prescribing information requirements
    • held outside the UK
    • certification of
    • hospitality, provision of
    • involving travel outside the UK
    • certification of
    • organised by affiliates
    • payment of room rental
    • payment of travelling and accommodation expenses
    • prohibition on inducements and payments for interviews
    • promotion at international meetings
    • reports on meetings
    • sponsorship of attendance at meetings, disclosure of
    • sponsorship of meetings, disclosure of
    • subsistence, provision of
    • venue, suitability of
  • membership
    • of Code of Practice Appeal Board
    • of Code of Practice Panel
  • memory sticks for health professionals
  • MHRA Drug Safety Update
N
  • naked or partially naked people, use of in advertising
  • National Health Service, joint working with
  • new medicines
    • advance notification of new products
    • avoidance of extremes of format, size or cost
    • introduction of a new medicine
    • limitations on mailings
    • use of the word ‘new’
  • non - interventional studies of marketed medicines
    • approval and supervision of
    • disclosure of
    • general
  • non-proprietary name, size and position
  • Nursing & Midwifery Council – Standards of conduct, performance and ethics for nurses and midwives
O
  • offence, causing
  • official documents, reproduction of
  • other relevant decision makers – definition of term
  • outcome agreements
  • over-the-counter medicines
    • definition of term
    • scope of the Code
P
  • package deals
  • package leaflets
    • on the Internet
    • provision to the public
  • patient access schemes
  • patient carers, hospitality to
  • patient information leaflets
    • provision by doctors to patients
  • patient organisations
    • relationships with
    • disclosure of support
    • services provided by
  • patients, items given to
  • patient support items
  • payments for interviews
  • pharmacovigilance – personnel’s knowledge of
  • post - authorization studies
  • postcards, use of
  • posted medicines
  • post-marketing surveillance studies
  • potency per weight claims
  • pre-printed private prescription forms
  • prescribing information
    • general
    • date of
    • exemptions
    • legibility
    • provision on
      • audio-visual etc
      • exhibitions and exhibition panels
      • Internet
      • journal advertisements
      • multi-page advertisements other than journal advertisements
    • requisite information
    • size of non-proprietary name
    • typesize
  • prescription forms
    • pre-printed private prescription forms
    • reproduction of official documents
  • Prescription Medicines Code of Practice Authority annual report
    • material to be supplied to Authority
      • authority of Director to require material
      • copies of certificates
      • examination status of representatives
      • material required for scrutiny
      • medical representatives briefing material
      • names of signatories
    • scrutiny
    • structure and responsibilities
  • press conferences and press announcements
  • pre-vetting
    • cost of
    • power of Appeal Board to require
  • price comparisons
  • price lists
  • prices – see trade practices
  • prizes
  • private prescription forms, preprinted
  • professional publications
  • promotional aids
  • public assessment reports (European & UK)
    • outside scope of the Code
      • provision of
        • on the Internet
        • to the public
  • public health campaigns
    • responsibility for
  • public, relations with
    • advertising to
    • disease awareness campaigns
    • enquiries from
    • exposed mailings
    • Internet
    • provision of information to
    • provision of samples to not allowed
    • public health campaigns
Q
  • quizzes
  • quotations
R
  • referee, independent
  • references
    • prohibition in abbreviated advertisements
    • references to published studies
  • relative risk, reference to
  • remote detailing
  • replies to individual enquiries
  • reply paid cards
    • reply paid cards offering items to be delivered
  • representatives, by
  • representatives
    • general
    • briefing material
    • contract representatives
    • definition of term
    • delivering items
    • examinations
    • frequency & manner of calls on doctors
    • hospitality and payments for meetings
    • identifying themselves
    • items delivered by representatives
    • prohibition on payments for interviews
    • provision of summary of product
  • representatives, characteristics by
    • training, general
  • reprints of articles, distribution of
  • reproduction of official documents
  • risk/benefit profile
  • risk, relative and absolute
  • risk sharing agreement
  • room rental, payment
  • Royal College of Nursing
    • case reports
    • consultation with on appointment of Appeal Board
    • independent registered nurse prescriber
    • on Code
  • Royal Pharmaceutical Society
    • case reports
    • consultation with
    • on appointment of Appeal Board independent registered pharmacist
    • on Code
  • rulings
    • by Appeal Board
    • by Panel
S
  • safe, use of the word
  • samples
    • general
    • definition of
    • distribution
      • in hospitals
      • to the public not allowed
    • identification samples
    • labelling
    • maximum number of
    • posted
    • request forms and their retention
    • size
    • starter packs
    • system of control and accountability
    • titration packs
    • use as inducement
    • use for patient treatment
    • which medicines can be sampled?
  • sanctions
    • audit of company’s procedures
    • case reports
    • corrective statements
    • pre-vetting
    • publication in medical, pharmaceutical and nursing press
    • recovery of items
    • reports to Appeal Board and ABPI Board
    • reprimand and publication
    • suspension/expulsion from ABPI
    • special provision for non ABPI companies
    • undertakings from companies ruled in breach
  • scientific service in charge of information
    • general
    • reports on adverse reactions by representatives
  • scientific service in charge of non-interventional studies of marketed medicines
  • scope of the Code
  • scrutiny
  • Serious Fraud Office consultation with on Code
  • sexual imagery, use of
  • side-effects – see adverse reactions
  • size of promotional material
    • abbreviated advertisements, size of
    • journal advertisements, size of
  • sponsorship of material and meetings, disclosure of
  • sponsorship of meeting attendance, disclosure of
  • starter packs
  • statistical information, use of
  • subsistence, provision of
  • substantiation of information, claims and comparisons
  • suitability and taste
  • summaries of product characteristics
    • outside scope of the Code
    • need to consult
    • provision of
      • by representatives
      • on the Internet
      • to the public
      • with press releases and press packs
      • with samples
      • summary in prescribing information
  • superlatives
  • suspension of advertising on complaints from Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency
  • suspension of material or activities pending appeal when required by Panel
  • switch and therapy review programmes
  • symposia – see meetings
T
  • tables – see artwork, illustrations, graphs and tables
  • taste in advertising
  • teaser advertising
  • telemessages, use of
  • telephone and text messages, use of
  • terms of trade – see trade practices
  • textbooks, provision of
  • text messages, use of
  • the, use of the word
  • therapy review programmes
  • timing under complaints procedure
    • general
    • appeals
    • commenting on appeal by complainant
    • commenting on appeal by respondent
    • extensions
    • payment of administrative charge
    • providing an undertaking on rulings by
      • Appeal Board
      • Panel
    • responding to complaint
    • suspension pending appeal when required by Panel
  • titration pack – see samples
  • trade practices, prices, discounts, margins, etc
  • training
    • training on Code
    • training of representatives
  • transfers of value
    • central platform for disclosure
    • definition of term
  • travelling expenses
U
  • unauthorized medicines and unauthorized indications
  • undertakings by companies ruled in breach
  • undertakings, breach of
  • unique, use of the word
  • unlicensed medicines, price lists of
V
  • volume of promotional material
  • voluntary admissions by pharmaceutical companies
W
  • WHO Ethical criteria for medicinal drug promotion
  • withdrawal of complaints and appeals
  • wraparounds, on journals
Y
  • yellow cards
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