§ 49. Mr. Lubbockasked the Minister of Health whether consultants are under any obligation to inform hospital administrative staff, other consultants and their patients, of any clinical trials they agree to conduct for drug companies outside their hospital duties.
§ Mr. RobinsonConsultants are not under any general obligation to inform hospital administrative staff or other consultants that they are undertaking clinical trials. Their responsibility to patients is the subject of guidance contained in a statement issued by the Medical Research Council in their Report for 1962–63 (Cmnd. 2382); hospital authorities were asked in September this year to bring its contents to the attention of all hospital medical staff.