Advert - Novo Nordisk – Case AUTH/3876/2/24

• Date posted
  17 February 2025
• Sanction
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For its failure to disclose or accurately disclose transfers of value to healthcare organisations and patient organisations, between 2015 and 2022, Novo Nordisk was ruled in breach of the following clauses of the 2015 Code, 2016 Code, 2019 Code and 2021 Code: 

2015 Code 

Clause 24.1 - Failing to document and publicly disclose annually certain transfers of value made directly or indirectly to health professionals, other relevant decision makers and healthcare organisations 

Clause 24.4 - Failing to make disclosures annually in respect of each calendar

year in the first six months after the end of the calendar year in which the transfers of value were made 

Clause 27.7 - Failing to make publicly available a list of patient organisations to which it provides support

2016 Code 

Clause 24.1 - Failing to document and publicly disclose annually certain transfers of value made directly or indirectly to health professionals, other relevant decision makers and healthcare organisations 

Clause 24.4 - Failing to make disclosures annually in respect of each calendar

year in the first six months after the end of the calendar year in which the transfers of value were made  Clause 27.7 - Failing to make publicly available a list of patient organisations to

which it provides support

2019 Code 

Clause 24.1 - Failing to document and publicly disclose annually certain transfers of value made directly or indirectly to health professionals, other relevant decision makers and healthcare organisations 

Clause 24.4 - Failing to make disclosures annually in respect of each calendar

year in the first six months after the end of the calendar year in which the transfers of value were made 

Clause 27.7 - Failing to make publicly available a list of patient organisations to which it provides support

2021 Code 

Clause 2 - Bringing discredit upon, and reducing confidence in, the pharmaceutical industry 

Clause 5.1 - Failing to maintain high standards 

Clause 28.1 - Failing to document and publicly disclose annually certain transfers of value made directly or indirectly to health professionals, other relevant decision makers and healthcare organisations

Clause 29.1    - Failing to make publicly available annually, a list of patient organisations to which it provides donations, grants or sponsorship or with whom it has engaged to provide contracted services over the reporting period 

Clause 29.2 - Failing to meet the disclosure requirements for the provision of

donations, grants or sponsorship to a patient organisation 

Clause 31.1 - Failing to make disclosures annually in respect of each calendar year in the first six months after the end of the calendar year in which the transfers of value were made.