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Mon 05 May 2009Doctors' links to drug firms may need new rules - HSE
THE CHIEF executive of the Health Service Executive, Prof Brendan Drumm, has proposed that new regulation could be considered to govern the relationship between the pharmaceutical industry and doctors.
In a letter to Department of Health secretary general Michael Scanlan, the HSE chief said it was interesting to note that in Australia, the Competition and Consumer Commission had to authorise a self-regulatory code of conduct for the drug industry.
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