Clause 29 Annual Disclosure of Contracted Services, Donations, Grants and Sponsorship (including in relation to events/meetings) Provided to Patient Organisations

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Clause 29
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  • Lawful Disclosure

    Companies must ensure that they have appropriate arrangements in place to lawfully disclose information about transfers of value and that recipients are aware of the process for disclosure.

  • Transfers of Value

    Disclosure is required even if the payments, etc. are made by overseas affiliates, head offices in the UK or overseas and UK-based offices.

29.1

Companies must make publicly available annually, a list of patient organisations to which it provides donations, grants or sponsorship (including in relation to events/meetings) or with whom it has engaged to provide contracted services over the reporting period. This information must be disclosed on the company website either on a national or European level. Each reporting period shall cover a full calendar year.

Each company must include a note of methodologies used by it in preparing the disclosures and identifying support and contracted services provided.

  • Clause 29.1 Patient Organisation Disclosure Method

    For transfers of value made in 2024 and publicly disclosed in 2025, and for each calendar year thereafter, companies should submit a link via the relevant Disclosure UK gateway. The link should take visitors from Disclosure UK to patient organisation disclosure information published on the company’s website.

  • Clause 29.1 Further Information

    An indication of the patient organisation’s total income and/or the company’s support as a percentage of the patient organisation’s total income may be given. Companies are encouraged to be prepared to make available up-to-date information about such activities at any time in response to enquiries.

    A template to disclose the information required in relation to patient organisations is available from the PMCPA website www.pmcpa.org.uk. The use of this template is optional.

29.2

The disclosure for the provision of donations, grants or sponsorship (including in relation to events/meetings) to a patient organisation must include:

• the monetary value of each financial contribution (grant or sponsorship) to include a description that is sufficiently complete to enable the reader to understand the nature of that support or the arrangements in accordance with Clauses 23 and 10

• the monetary value for each non-financial and/or indirect support (donation); the published information must also include a clear description of each donation that is sufficiently complete to enable the reader to understand the nature of the support or the arrangements. If the non-financial and/or indirect support (donation) cannot be assigned a meaningful monetary value, the published information must describe clearly the non-monetary value that the organisation receives that is sufficiently complete to enable the reader to understand the nature of the support or the arrangements in accordance with Clause 23.

The disclosure for contracted services provided by each patient organisation, in accordance with Clause 24, must include:

• the total amount paid per patient organisation per calendar year including a description of the services provided that is sufficiently complete to enable the reader to understand the nature of the services provided without the necessity to divulge confidential information

• fees and expenses should be disclosed separately.