Doctors and other HCPs help us by identifying potential volunteers for clinical trials, administer the investigational medicine or vaccine to the patients, and monitor the results. In this way their unique medical insight and knowledge is vital to the development of new treatments.
At the core of these relationships is a shared concern for improving the health of patients, based on our values of transparency, respect, integrity and patient focus. HCPs who work with us on clinical trials have contracts with us and are paid for their work on these clinical trials. This payment covers their time, plus the cost of investigations they may need to carry out regarding the suitability of a patient and the effectiveness of the treatment.
We have strict policies governing all our work with HCPs. These state that: