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).