Conflicts of interest: the Court of Auditors noted the “major flaws” in the health system – The World

not a matter of public health point except from the failures of the health system for prevention of conflicts of interest. The last one, the one Mediator – the antidiabetic Servier laboratories suspected of having caused the death of more than a thousand people – had revealed the incestuous relationship between the drug manufacturer and some experts to evaluate. The controversy was considerable, the major crisis of confidence.

Bertrand law of December 29, 2011 was the government’s response to prevent a recurrence. Therefore, health experts would have to declare their interests known and make them public. The discussions of the expert committees would be recorded. The benefits paid by industrial doctors, put online.

Four years later, what assessment? Is the real transparency? Is the law correctly applied? The text was ambitious, putting it into practice has proved “delicate and much room for improvement,” match the judges of the Court of Auditors in their report of March 23 on “prevention of conflicts of interest in health expertise. ” If real progress has been made, the devices “allow only [always] not to account simply and directly links between health professionals and industry” and therefore “ensure the absence of any conflict of interest that could weaken health decision” . According to the Court, the healthcare system in France has always …