Framework to boost ethical cooperation

A total of 25 major industrial associations from the pharmaceutical, medical device producer and medical care community signed an ethical cooperation framework in Beijing in July in a bid to improve business integrity and professional ethics in the industry.

The framework, titled the Consensus Framework for Ethical Cooperation in the Chinese Pharmaceutical and Medical Devices Industry, calls on the industry to be patient-centered, to provide quality products and services, adopt ethical and transparent communication and cooperation, and to assume high-level codes of conduct and norms in business operations.

In doing so, it aims to strengthen standards and ethical exchanges among pharmaceutical companies, medical device producers, sales companies, medical professionals, and government agencies, to facilitate the development of professionalism in the industry.