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Prescrire's finances: total transparency

Financed solely through subscriptions, Prescrire publishes its accounts each year. Prescrire is one of the world’s few continuing education organisations for healthcare professionals that is completely independent both of the pharmaceutical industry and the health authorities.

Prescrire publishes the accounts of the Association Mieux Prescrire each year, as it has done since 1992. The Association Mieux Prescrire is financed solely through subscriptions to its productions: the journals Prescrire and Prescrire International, and its various continuing education programmes.

Prescrire is thus funded solely by its 30,000 subscribers, most of whom are practising or future healthcare professionals.

Prescrire is one of the world’s few continuing education organisations for healthcare professionals that is completely independent both of the pharmaceutical industry and the health authorities.

This financial autonomy is crucial to its editorial independence: Prescrire is accountable only to its subscribers, who rely on it for an evaluation of new drugs by editors free of conflict of interest and for critique of French and European health authority decisions.

In publishing its accounts, Prescrire exemplifies the transparency that is so vital in the drug field, which is dominated by commercial interests.

In subscribing to Prescrire, healthcare professionals show that they are capable of funding a source of top-level independent training which defends their needs, and those of their patients who rely on them for high-quality care.

©Prescrire June 2009

Source: "Les Finances de l'Association Mieux Prescrire" Rev Prescrire 2009; 29 (305): 164-165.
"The finances of Association Mieux Prescrire", 2008 Prescrire annual report." Prescrire International 2009; 18 (101): 132-133.

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