Richard Tiner, the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry's medical director, has responded to media claims that the Royal College of Physicians' recent report (Innovating for Health; Marketletter February 16) "is just the latest in a line of attacks" on drugmakers. Dr Tiner argues that the RCP "wants to re-invigorate the relationship between the people that make medicines and the people that prescribe them" for a "new covenant" by removing gift and pharma-sponsored continuing education for physicians. Common ground exists in other areas, such as drug access to patients.
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