Conference Vetting System

MedTech Europe, European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA)

Conference Vetting System

Mission

Promote transparency and ethics in the healthcare industry

Goals

The Conference Vetting System (CVS) is a unique initiative to promote transparency and ethics in the healthcare industry.

It's main objectives are:

  • To encourage transparency and consistency in medical education events.

  • To alleviate the complex administrative burden faced by healthcare companies regarding compliance assessments of third-party educational events.

  • To ensure that companies provide financial support only to compliant third-party educational events.

  • To establish a common approach for the assessment of third-party educational events in accordance with the Codes of Ethical Business Practice.

Stakeholders

Intiated in 2012, MedTech Europe established the CVS as a compliance standard for the industry and a quality label for third-party conferences in Europe.

In 2015, the initiative was adapted and replicated in the Middle East and North Africa, with funding from the Siemens Integrity Initiative.

Activities

CVS serves as a centralised decision-making system that encourages transparency and consistency in medical education events and alleviates the complex administrative burden previously faced by MedTech Europe and Mecomed members, who were constrained to make their own determinations on whether or not a third-party educational event they wished to provide support to was compliant with the associations’ respective Codes.

CVS reviews the compliance of third-party educational events with the MedTech Europe Code of Ethical Business Practice and Mecomed Code of Business Practice (the “Codes”) to determine the appropriateness for companies which are members of MedTech Europe and Mecomed to provide financial support to such events in the form of educational grants or commercial activities.

The review process is based on a set of 6 criteria: the scientific programme, the geographic location, the conference venue, the hospitality, the registration packages benefits, the communication. The decisions rendered by CVS are binding on MedTech Europe and Mecomed members.

This information is gathered from open-source data and in some cases has been provided by initiative facilitators. We cannot guarantee the accuracy or completeness of the information and do not take responsibility for decisions made on the basis of it. Please inform us of any errors by emailing us.

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Status

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    Scope

    • global
      Initiative that is explicitly global in focus and mandate - i.e. not pertaining to specific countries.

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    Stakeholders

    • Private sector
      Privately owned commercial (for-profit) entities of all sizes, including SMEs
    • Civil society
      non-governmental organisations (national or international), foundations funded by private entities, faith-based organisations, Professional associations, Industry associations, Chambers of Commerce, Local Global Compact Networks

    Type

    • Standard-setting initiative
      Codes of conduct, Industry/country anti-corruption policies/compliance standards, Self-assessments tools and mechanisms/methodologies, Implementation tools
    • Assurance-focused initiative
      Compliance certification approaches, Compliance monitoring mechanism including reporting mechanism

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