Dataset for "A patient-industry complex? Investigating the financial dependency of UK patient organisations on drug company funding"

This digital dataset includes Appendices accompanying the paper entitled ‘A “patient-industry complex”? Investigating the financial dependency of UK patient organisations on drug company funding (2012-2016)’.

The Appendices provide (1) raw data analysed in the paper; (2) background details of data collection and analysis; (3) additional research findings and commentary.

The Appendices draw on data extracted from two sources:

A. Yearly disclosure reports published by 62 UK-based drug companies, on their respective websites, including payments made to patient organisations registered as charities in the UK;
B. Yearly financial accounts produced by 399 UK-based patient organisations and published on charity regulator websites.

The data is divided into Appendices which are signposted throughout the Methods and Findings sections of the above-mentioned article.