UK National Health Service Officials On Pharma Cartel Payroll

An investigation has found that more than 130 officials employed in the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) have simultaneously been paid as consultants by pharmaceutical companies. The officials concerned, most of whom are believed to be managers or other senior administrators, are involved in assessing which drugs the NHS should give to patients. Suggesting the actual number who have been taking money from the pharma industry may even be higher than thus far reported, the Daily Telegraph, the British newspaper that uncovered the story, describes the problem as being “systemic” within the NHS.

Providing further evidence of the extent to which the Pharma Cartel controls healthcare in the UK, the Daily Telegraph’s investigation found the NHS officials have participated in taking decisions on drugs that are manufactured by some of the same pharma companies they have been taking money from. Tellingly, when first approached by the newspaper, several of the NHS bodies involved in the scandal initially denied their staff had carried out consultancy work for the pharma industry. It was only later, when presented with specific names, that they admitted to it.

The influence of the pharmaceutical industry

As a shocking report published in 2005 by a British House of Commons committee confirms, the vast influence of the pharmaceutical industry in the UK has long been an open secret within government circles. Describing it as “pervasive and persistent”, the report shows that the volume, extent and intensity of the Pharma Cartel’s reach impacts not only on clinical medicine and research, but also on patients, regulators, the media, civil servants and politicians. Notably, the possibility that some of the Cartel’s promotional activities are covert was specifically referred to in the report and described as “particularly worrying.”

With the House of Commons report having essentially been buried, however, and no decisive measures implemented to curtail the pharma industry’s influence in the UK, it would clearly be naïve to expect the British government’s ongoing support for the ‘business with disease’ to cease anytime soon.

At the global level, the uncomfortable reality is that pharma-related conflicts of interest such as those uncovered by the Daily Telegraph are now endemic in orthodox medicine. In another example that we reported on only a few weeks ago, half of the researchers who authored a study promoting the use of “intensive blood pressure-lowering” drugs had connections to either drug makers, pro-pharmaceutical research interests, or both. Unreported by the world’s media, the monies paid to the researchers have included grants, honoraria, travel reimbursement, personal fees and salary support. Several of them have even been on drug company steering committees or advisory boards.

The need for a prevention-oriented healthcare system

Promisingly, however, a growing number of doctors are beginning to recognize the deadlocks of conventional medicine and realize they have become victims of a medical training system that degrades the medical profession, essentially reducing it to a sales force for the pharmaceutical investment business. Dissatisfied with the failure of drug-based medicine to safely and effectively prevent diseases, and aware of the fact that human health is being held hostage on a global scale, they are increasingly open to considering alternative approaches.

Ultimately, the choice facing these doctors, and indeed their patients, is a very simple one: Either we allow this and all future generations of mankind to become completely dependent on the Pharma Cartel and be controlled by its stakeholders, or we take responsibility for creating a new prevention-oriented healthcare system that is run for the people and by the people. In the coming years, whether we are successful in saving millions of lives will be determined by all of us, collectively, making the right choice.

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Executive Director of the Dr. Rath Health Foundation and one of the coauthors of our explosive book, “The Nazi Roots of the ‘Brussels EU'”, Paul is also our expert on the Codex Alimentarius Commission and has had eye-witness experience, as an official observer delegate, at its meetings.

Prior to joining the Foundation, Paul's background was in the music industry, where he worked as a keyboard player and programmer with artists including Paul McCartney, Bryan Ferry, Bill Withers, the Verve, Texas, and Primal Scream.

He first became interested in natural health after falling ill with a chronic fatigue syndrome-related disorder in 1991 and subsequently making a full recovery through the use of natural health therapies. After meeting Dr. Rath and Dr. Niedzwiecki at an anti-Codex rally in Berlin in 2002, Paul was inspired to make a life-changing decision to leave the music industry to work for the Foundation and help defend the right of patients worldwide to have free access to natural health approaches.

You can find Paul on Twitter at @paulanthtaylor

Der Executive Director der Dr. Rath Health Foundation ist einer der Koautoren des explosiven Buchs „Die Nazi-Wurzeln der Brüsseler EU“. Paul ist auch unser Experte zum Thema „Codex Alimentarius-Kommission“ und hat Augenzeugenerfahrung als offizieller beobachtender Teilnehmer bei diesen Treffen.

Bevor er seine Arbeit bei der Stiftung antrat war Paul in der Musikindustrie aktiv. Er arbeitete als Keyboard-Spieler und Programmierer mit Künstlern wie Paul McCartney, Bryan Ferry, Bill Withers, the Verve, Texas und Primal Scream.

Sein Interesse an natürlicher Gesundheit wuchs, als er 1991 an Störungen erkrankte, die aus einem chronischen Erschöpfungssyndrom resultierten. Durch natürliche Gesundheitstherapien wurde er schließlich vollständig geheilt. Ein Treffen 2002 mit Dr. Rath und Dr. Niedzwiecki bei einer Anti-Codex-Demonstration in Berlin inspirierte ihn zu einer lebensverändernden Entscheidung und er verließ die Musikindustrie um für die Stiftung zu arbeiten und das Recht der Patienten zu verteidigen, weltweit freien Zugang zu natürlichen Gesundheitsverfahren zu haben.

Auf Twitter ist Paul unter @paulanthtaylor zu finden.

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