UK drug company Glaxo 'paid bribes to Polish doctors' - GoFuckYourself.com

wehateporn · 04-14-2014, 05:46 AM

Another day another Big Pharma scandal

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-26970873

"UK drug company GlaxoSmithKline is facing a criminal investigation in Poland for allegedly bribing doctors, BBC Panorama has discovered.

Eleven doctors and a GSK regional manager have been charged over alleged corruption between 2010 and 2012.

A former sales rep said doctors were paid to promote GSK's asthma drug Seretide.

The company said one employee had been disciplined and it was co-operating with investigations.

If the allegations are proved, GSK may have violated both the UK Bribery Act and the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. It is illegal for companies based in either country to bribe government employees abroad.
'Financial gains'

A former sales rep for GSK in the Polish region of Lodz, Jarek Wisniewski, said: "There is a simple equation," he said. "We pay doctors, they give us prescriptions. We don't pay doctors, we don't see prescriptions for our drugs.

"We cannot go to doctors and say to them, 'I need 20 more prescriptions'. So we prepare an agreement for them to give a talk to patients, we pay £100, but we expect more than 100 prescriptions for this drug.

"It's a bribe," Mr Wisniewski said, confirming that although on paper the payments were for educational services, the doctors understood very clearly that they must produce a certain number of prescriptions in return.

The Lodz public prosecutor found evidence in documents given to doctors by GSK to support claims of corrupt payments in more than a dozen different health centres where there was no evidence "patient education" had taken place.

Spokesman Krzysztof Kopania said: "We have evidence that in more than a dozen cases it was a camouflaged form of a bribe.

"In return for the financial gains the doctors would favour the product proposed by the pharmaceutical company and they prescribed that medicine."

One doctor has already admitted guilt, been fined and given a suspended sentence. He said he accepted £100 for a single lecture he never gave, but only under pressure from a GSK drugs rep.

He told Panorama: "They kept tempting, and I am just a man."
Reprimanded and disciplined

The company said a GSK training programme to help improve diagnostic standards and medical training in respiratory disease was run by doctors in Poland from 2010 to 2012.

A statement said: "These sessions were delivered by specialist healthcare professionals who, based on contracts signed with GSK, received payments appropriate to the scope of work as well as their level of knowledge and experience. The provision of sessions under this programme was agreed with the Polish healthcare centres.

"Following receipt of allegations regarding the conduct of the programme in the Lodz region, GSK has investigated the matter, using resources from both inside and outside the company. The investigation found evidence of inappropriate communication in contravention of GSK policy by a single employee. The employee concerned was reprimanded and disciplined as a result.

"We continue to investigate these matters and are co-operating fully with the CBA [Poland's Central Anticorruption Office]."

In 2012, GSK paid $3bn (£1.9bn) in the largest healthcare fraud settlement in US history after pleading guilty to promoting two drugs for unapproved uses and failing to report safety data about a diabetes drug to the Food and Drug Administration.

Last December, the company announced it was making major changes to its incentive schemes after a damaging corruption scandal in China.

The Chinese Ministry of Public Security has claimed that between 2007 and 2010 GSK funnelled three billion Chinese yuan (£300m) through travel agencies.

It said it would end direct payments to doctors for promotional talks and stop setting individual targets for its sales reps as part of a wider effort to improve transparency."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-26970873

scottybuzz · 04-14-2014, 06:57 AM

do you still finger your mother?

EddyTheDog · 04-14-2014, 07:45 AM

That's barely even news - It's how they have always done business...

wehateporn · 04-14-2014, 07:49 AM

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Originally Posted by EddyTheDog

That's barely even news - It's how they have always done business...

Yet some GFYer still like toxic jab

wehateporn · 04-14-2014, 07:51 AM

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Originally Posted by scottybuzz

do you still finger your mother?

ask doctor advice about mother insistence to continue breastfeed, he say time stop and give her the finger

EddyTheDog · 04-14-2014, 07:54 AM

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Originally Posted by wehateporn

ask doctor advice about mother insistence to continue breastfeed, he say time stop and give her the finger

How come you have suddenly lost the ability to form sentences?..

wehateporn · 04-14-2014, 07:56 AM

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Originally Posted by EddyTheDog

How come you have suddenly lost the ability to form sentences?..

Sorry about that, I do outsource some posts to my Indian employees; still working on that one

Matt 26z · 04-14-2014, 08:07 AM

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Originally Posted by EddyTheDog

How come you have suddenly lost the ability to form sentences?..

Could be mind control.

He does post a lot of conspiracy threads here. Might be a desensitization effort by the EBEs that will soon come to earth. They control people to talk about aliens and general government mistrust so that people aren't TOTALLY shocked when they arrive.

Here's a well known example of it going wrong:

EddyTheDog · 04-14-2014, 08:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Matt 26z

Could be mind control.

He does post a lot of conspiracy threads here. Might be a desensitization effort by the EBEs that will soon come to earth. They control people to talk about aliens and general government mistrust so that people aren't TOTALLY shocked when they arrive.

Here's a well known example of it going wrong:

It must be - I don't believe the rogue Indian story at all - He didn't call me 'Mr EddyTheDog' or 'Sir' even once...

blazin · 04-14-2014, 01:26 PM

Not surprising... a big UK pharma corp was bribing doctors in Argentina to test drugs on the kids over there so this is nothing really.

_Richard_ · 04-14-2014, 01:38 PM

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Originally Posted by blazin

Not surprising... a big UK pharma corp was bribing doctors in Argentina to test drugs on the kids over there so this is nothing really.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/03/world/...company-fined/

dude what. the. fuck.

DWB · 04-14-2014, 05:24 PM

Anything that is ever said about big pharma companies, no matter how insane, I tend to believe it because it usually turns out to be true.

A lot of the meds that get banned from the FDA and pulled from shelves, or never pass the FDA, end up in parts of SE Asia or Africa, even if they know the meds can be dangerous. There is no line these guys won't cross for a profit.

04-14-2014, 05:46 AM	#1
wehateporn Promoting Debate on GFY Industry Role: Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 27,172	UK drug company Glaxo 'paid bribes to Polish doctors' Another day another Big Pharma scandal http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-26970873 "UK drug company GlaxoSmithKline is facing a criminal investigation in Poland for allegedly bribing doctors, BBC Panorama has discovered. Eleven doctors and a GSK regional manager have been charged over alleged corruption between 2010 and 2012. A former sales rep said doctors were paid to promote GSK's asthma drug Seretide. The company said one employee had been disciplined and it was co-operating with investigations. If the allegations are proved, GSK may have violated both the UK Bribery Act and the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. It is illegal for companies based in either country to bribe government employees abroad. 'Financial gains' A former sales rep for GSK in the Polish region of Lodz, Jarek Wisniewski, said: "There is a simple equation," he said. "We pay doctors, they give us prescriptions. We don't pay doctors, we don't see prescriptions for our drugs. "We cannot go to doctors and say to them, 'I need 20 more prescriptions'. So we prepare an agreement for them to give a talk to patients, we pay £100, but we expect more than 100 prescriptions for this drug. "It's a bribe," Mr Wisniewski said, confirming that although on paper the payments were for educational services, the doctors understood very clearly that they must produce a certain number of prescriptions in return. The Lodz public prosecutor found evidence in documents given to doctors by GSK to support claims of corrupt payments in more than a dozen different health centres where there was no evidence "patient education" had taken place. Spokesman Krzysztof Kopania said: "We have evidence that in more than a dozen cases it was a camouflaged form of a bribe. "In return for the financial gains the doctors would favour the product proposed by the pharmaceutical company and they prescribed that medicine." One doctor has already admitted guilt, been fined and given a suspended sentence. He said he accepted £100 for a single lecture he never gave, but only under pressure from a GSK drugs rep. He told Panorama: "They kept tempting, and I am just a man." Reprimanded and disciplined The company said a GSK training programme to help improve diagnostic standards and medical training in respiratory disease was run by doctors in Poland from 2010 to 2012. A statement said: "These sessions were delivered by specialist healthcare professionals who, based on contracts signed with GSK, received payments appropriate to the scope of work as well as their level of knowledge and experience. The provision of sessions under this programme was agreed with the Polish healthcare centres. "Following receipt of allegations regarding the conduct of the programme in the Lodz region, GSK has investigated the matter, using resources from both inside and outside the company. The investigation found evidence of inappropriate communication in contravention of GSK policy by a single employee. The employee concerned was reprimanded and disciplined as a result. "We continue to investigate these matters and are co-operating fully with the CBA [Poland's Central Anticorruption Office]." In 2012, GSK paid $3bn (£1.9bn) in the largest healthcare fraud settlement in US history after pleading guilty to promoting two drugs for unapproved uses and failing to report safety data about a diabetes drug to the Food and Drug Administration. Last December, the company announced it was making major changes to its incentive schemes after a damaging corruption scandal in China. The Chinese Ministry of Public Security has claimed that between 2007 and 2010 GSK funnelled three billion Chinese yuan (£300m) through travel agencies. It said it would end direct payments to doctors for promotional talks and stop setting individual targets for its sales reps as part of a wider effort to improve transparency." http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-26970873 __________________ Sexy Girls Teasing

04-14-2014, 06:57 AM	#2
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04-14-2014, 01:26 PM	#10
blazin Confirmed User Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 2,781	Not surprising... a big UK pharma corp was bribing doctors in Argentina to test drugs on the kids over there so this is nothing really. __________________ I don't endorse a god damn thing......

04-14-2014, 07:45 AM	#3
EddyTheDog Just Doing My Own Thing Industry Role: Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: London, Spain, New Zealand, GFY - Not Croydon... Posts: 24,767	That's barely even news - It's how they have always done business...

04-14-2014, 05:24 PM	#12
DWB Giggity Industry Role: Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: S.E. Asia Posts: 31,779	Anything that is ever said about big pharma companies, no matter how insane, I tend to believe it because it usually turns out to be true. A lot of the meds that get banned from the FDA and pulled from shelves, or never pass the FDA, end up in parts of SE Asia or Africa, even if they know the meds can be dangerous. There is no line these guys won't cross for a profit.