Colleges divided over $10 drug company gifts
24th September 2013
At least two other medical colleges disagree with the RACGP's push for doctors to be named if they accept payments or gifts worth as little as $10 in value from pharmaceutical companies.
The clashing views have emerged as colleges weigh in on a plan by the pharmaceutical industry to publish details of payments to health professionals relating to prescription medicines from 2016 onwards.
Two other medical colleges argue that the $10 threshold is too low and that payments of "greater public interest" should be the focus.