A hidden web of policy influence: The pharmaceutical industry's engagement with UK's All-Party Parliamentary Groups.

ABSTRACT: Our objective was to examine conflicts of interest between the UK's health-focused All-Party Parliamentary Groups (APPGs) and the pharmaceutical industry between 2012 and 2018. APPGs are informal cross-party groups revolving around a particular topic run by and for Members of the UK's Houses of Commons and Lords. They facilitate engagement between parliamentarians and external organisations, disseminate knowledge, and generate debate through meetings, publications, and events. We identified APPGs focusing on physical or mental health, wellbeing, health care, or treatment and extracted details of their payments from external donors disclosed on the Register for All-Party Parliamentary Groups. We identified all donors which were pharmaceutical companies and pharmaceutical industry-funded pat

SUBMITTER: Rickard E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8224875 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature