Steven Gray Consultancy

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Interim Company Compliance Officer support
Steven Gray is available for short to medium term interim management assignments

 

Initiating and responding to Code breach allegations
Release your in-house resource from the time-consuming investigations and letters that are involved in inter-company dialogue or communication with the PMCPA. We can undertake the majority of the work on your behalf.

 

Compliance investigations
Mistakes happen. However you need to differentiate between mistakes, negligence and deliberate disobedience. We offer discrete independent assessment of alleged breaches.

 

Independent assessment of sponsorship and grant applications
Maintain the distance between the support you offer your customers and any potential allegations of inducement. Let us review sponsorship applications on your behalf.

 

Auditing services
You need to know when things aren't working. We offer a wide range of services to help uncover your compliance risks, from reviewing your policies to scrutiny of materials and in-field activities.

 

Design & development of compliance reports & policies

There are certain key policies and procedures that are required as a condition of membership of the ABPI:

  • Certification of promotional (and non-promotional) material
  • Certification of representative's training and briefing material
  • Approval and payment of representatve's expenses
  • Meetings & Hospitality arrangements and expenses
  • Representative's Training
  • Non-interventional Studies of Marketed medicines
  • Provision of medicines and samples
  • The use of consultants
  • Medical and Educational Goods and Services (including promotional aids and donations)
  • Relations with public and the media
  • Relationships with PatientOrganisations
  • The Internet
  • Breaches of the Code and withdrawal of in-breach material
  • Co-promotion (where applicable)
In addition, there are a number of areas where experience strongly suggests that written guidance can help avoid compliance breaches and save companies valuable time in the development of material. We provide a comprehensive range of template policies.

Most policies are written in a very formal way, yet front-line staff are typically hands-on practical people. Our consultants can help deliver policies that are robust without being onerous to read. We can help with Governance frameworks, policy development and compliance reporting. We can also support the roll-out of policies and frameworks to your staff in an engaging and effective manner. Our partnership with leading creative agencies also enables us to provide some very innovative approaches to the roll-out!

We believe there are fundamental differences between formal SOPs, process controls and general guidance policies. We can help you identify what document is appropriate for your needs at the time and support you in the development and the roll-out.

We also have a range of template policies that can be adapted for use by individual companies.

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  • Forthcoming events & courses

    Come and meet Steve Gray at the Network Pharma event in Cheshire on 24th September. Please drop us a line and ask for details.

     

    Steven Gray has written some on-line training modules for Wellards. The first two modules are targeted at representatives. One highlights the changes in the (2008) ABPI Code of Practice, the other provides useful guidance on how to run meetings in accordance with the 2008 Code.

     

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  • 2008 Codes of Practice

    All materials have been updated to comply with the 2008 ABPI Code of Practice.

    A range of template policies is available to meet the new requirements of the 2008 ABPI Code of Practice.

    Our consultants can deliver training courses on the changes to the (2008) ABPI Code of Practice in your own offices. Please ask for details.

    A set of PowerPoint slides summarising the changes to the ABPI code of Practice, complete with notes for trainers is available to purchase for £150. Please visit the 'Resources' section.

    A report highlighting all the changes to the UK ABPI Code has been made available by Network Pharma. Please visit the 'Library' for more information. Thank you to Wolters Kluwer for their sponsorship of this report.

    Sets of PowerPoint slides summarising the changes in the major European Codes of Practice are being made available over the next few weeks and can be obtained via the 'Resources' section of by contacting us directly. The first set summarises changes to the Irish IPHA Code and is available now priced at £150 (ex VAT). 

     

     

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