CTM41360 | Particular bodies: Pharmaceutical cases: Definition

A working definition of a pharmaceutical (“pharma”) case is set out below:

Included

• Any manufacturer or developer of human or veterinary medicines (whether or not prescription only), or materials used in medical diagnostics

• Any manufacturer of drug delivery systems or of aids to surgery or other medical interventions

• Any distributor connected to a pharmaceutical manufacturer

• Any contract research organisation (CRO), or contract manufacturer, working to the pharmaceutical industry

• ‘Virtual pharmas’, that is companies which acquire or develop medicines but use other organisations for some or all of the R&D, manufacturing or marketing.

• Biotechnology or life science companies.

Excluded

• Retail pharmacists.

• Wholesalers and distributors of drugs which

  • acquire no proprietary interest in the products they sell, and

  • are not part of a group which includes a pharmaceutical manufacturer (whether in the UK or abroad).