Lavish trips laid on by drugs firms to ‘sway’ #NHS staff
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Ensconced in a five-star hotel in Baden Baden, a dozen NHS staff found themselves enjoying some of the finest hospitality the German spa town had to offer. The group of British health officials visiting earlier this month were offered expensive champagne, dinner at an exclusive restaurant and even Jacuzzis in many of their rooms.
However, while other visitors to the town were there purely for leisure, this particular party were being hosted by a pharmaceutical company hoping to increase sales of its products.
The trip was organised by Paul Jerram, an NHS health official who, as well as being involved in choosing the drugs prescribed on the Isle of Wight, also makes money arranging “advisory boards”, made up of NHS employees, for pharmaceutical companies.
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