Civio investigations
payments to doctors
We expose the payments made by pharmaceutical companies to doctors in Spain, from fees for services to financing conferences and training. We break down the figures, patterns and lack of transparency in these payments, as well as their influence on medical practice. Awards:
- Concha García Campoy Award in Science Journalism to Ángela Bernardo
- Finalist - Inter American Press Association Awards for Excellence in Journalism 2018
Under cover of darkness: Pharmaceutical and food industry payments to national paediatric associations
National paediatric associations in six of eight European countries do not disclose their financial ties with the private sector.
18 doctors received over 50,000 euros each from a single pharmaceutical company in 2017
Together with sums of money they received from other laboratories, they were dished out a total of over 1.6 million. Most of them work in public hospitals.
English and Swiss doctors are more transparent than German and Spanish ones
All these countries publish a declared portion – how much each doctor received from each firm – and an anonymous portion, published as an aggregate figure without names. It is partial transparency.
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