The Ontario government is putting off the implementation of rules that would require pharmaceutical companies and medical device makers to report all payments and gifts to doctors, medical associations, patient advocacy groups and others in the province.
The Health Sector Payment Transparency Act was passed in December 2017, but the regulations had not been finalized before the provincial election last June, which brought Doug Ford’s Conservative government to power. Now the government wants to take a second look at the proposed rules. Read more in CMAJ.