According to De Gelderlander’s decision, the Canisius Wilhelmina Hospital (CWZ) in Nijmegen won the legal battle against its own cardiologists. The question then becomes to what account should the money be paid for the research of a new drug?
Cardiologists who want to research a new heart drug will receive 7,000 euros per patient from the pharmaceutical company Janssen. They donate some of this money to the hospital, for example, for using the laboratory.
However, the CWZ board of directors still remains unclear how much cardiologists earn and how many hours they work for this. To make this transparent, the hospital requires payments to be processed through the hospital’s accounting system. Winnings can then be investigated by the hospital.
Reprimanded by supervisory authority
Like three other hospitals, CWZ was recently reprimanded by the Health and Youth Inspectorate. It concluded that hospitals did not have sufficient visibility into payments made to their doctors. By doing this they are violating the law that is supposed to prevent conflicts of interest.
The regulator conducted the investigation based on reports from NOS and Nieuwsuur’s investigative editors. He previously announced that CWZ cardiologists paid at least 1.7 million euros into their company accounts without the knowledge of the clinic management.
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De Gelderlander writes that, according to CWZ, the assets of hospital cardiologists in their limited liability companies have “increased enormously”. The hospital therefore wanted transparency regarding financial flows.
However, according to the cardiologists’ lawyer, the doctors followed all the rules. In his opinion, the comment on the increasing presence of BVs is a “spoiler image” and “a direct attack on their integrity”. Cardiologists did not want to respond further to NOS.
“More in all hospitals”
The judge decided that the hospital management was ultimately responsible for the investigation. Therefore, you can also set the conditions for how the money will flow.
CWZ president Ankie van Rossum says she is not afraid the outcome of the case will deter other experts. “This will become the rule in all hospitals,” she said in response to Gelderlander.
Source: NOS
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