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Editor, Senior Moderator
Published 5 July 2010, doi:10.1136/bmj.c3546
Cite this as: BMJ 2010;341:c3546
The contract between the drug firm Novartis and Italy’s health ministry over the purchase of 24 million doses of the H1N1 flu vaccine Focetria raises "many perplexities," a report from the Italian Court of Audit (Corte dei Conti) has said.
The court is an autonomous and independent judicial body charged with conducting financial and legislative audits of most public institutions, including the government.
The contract for the swine flu vaccine, worth {euro}187m (£154m; $234m), was signed in August 2009. It was submitted for approval to the court, which raised several objections about the unusual procedure that was followed and many clauses that seemed too favourable to the industry. However, the contract was approved in September in consideration of "the exceptionality and extreme urgency of the intervention."
The latest updates published by Italy’s Higher Institute of Health show that fewer than 900 000 people were vaccinated against H1N1 in Italy, just . . .
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Cite this as: BMJ 2010;341:c3546
The contract between the drug firm Novartis and Italy’s health ministry over the purchase of 24 million doses of the H1N1 flu vaccine Focetria raises "many perplexities," a report from the Italian Court of Audit (Corte dei Conti) has said.
The court is an autonomous and independent judicial body charged with conducting financial and legislative audits of most public institutions, including the government.
The contract for the swine flu vaccine, worth {euro}187m (£154m; $234m), was signed in August 2009. It was submitted for approval to the court, which raised several objections about the unusual procedure that was followed and many clauses that seemed too favourable to the industry. However, the contract was approved in September in consideration of "the exceptionality and extreme urgency of the intervention."
The latest updates published by Italy’s Higher Institute of Health show that fewer than 900 000 people were vaccinated against H1N1 in Italy, just . . .
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/shor...feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: bmj/recent (Latest from BMJ)