Table 1 Payment recipients subject to disclosure under the JPMA Transparency Guidelines and the ABPI Code
Comparative recipient categories | JPMA Transparency Guidelines (2018) | ABPI Code (2019 and 2021) | |
|---|---|---|---|
Level of aggregation | Recipient categories | ||
Individual | Healthcare professionals | “Medical personnel (physicians, dentists, pharmacists, public health nurses, nurses, and other persons involved in medical and nursing care)” (JTG2018, Chapter 3 – Disclosure Recipients, Medical personnel, etc.) | Anyone “who in the course of their professional activities may administer, purchase, recommend or supply a medicine” (AC2019, Clause 1.4) |
Other healthcare personnel | “Persons involved in medical operations (officers and employees of medical institutions other than medical personnel, and other persons involved in the selection or purchase of medicines)” (JTG2018, Chapter 3 – Disclosure Recipients, Medical personnel, etc.) | Other Relevant Decision Makers – “particularly includes those with an NHS [National Health Service] role who “who could influence in any way the administration, consumption, prescription, purchase, recommendation, sale, supply or use of any medicine but who are not health professionals” (AC2019, Clause 1.5) | |
Non-healthcare personnel | “Life science researchers in medicine, pharmacy, science and engineering” (JTG2018, Chapter 3 – Disclosure Recipients, Medical personnel, etc.) | “Individual members of the public, including patients, individual patients not representing a patient organisation and journalists” (AC2021, Clause 4.5) | |
Organisational | Healthcare organisations | “Medical institutions, research institutions or departments, medical organisations, and foundations.” (JTG2018, Chapter 3 – Disclosure Recipients, (1) medical institution (2) research institution (3) Medical Organizations (4) Foundation, etc.) | “Institutions, organisations or associations that are comprised of health professionals and/or that provide healthcare or conduct research” (AC2019, Clause 19.2), such as a “hospital, clinic, foundation, university or other teaching institution or learned society” (AC2019, Clause 1.9) |