{"id":1008,"date":"2010-02-23T14:51:53","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T13:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/?p=1008"},"modified":"2010-10-08T13:59:27","modified_gmt":"2010-10-08T12:59:27","slug":"georg-roggla-peter-sawickis-dismissal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2010\/02\/23\/georg-roggla-peter-sawickis-dismissal\/","title":{"rendered":"Georg R\u00f6ggla: Peter Sawicki&#8217;s dismissal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/columns\/icons\/georg_roggla.jpg\" alt=\"Georg R\u00f6ggla\" width=\"160\" height=\"110\" align=\"left\" \/>Nutrition in Critical Care Medicine was the main topic in the lectures at the \u2018Wiener Intensivmedizinische Tage\u2019 in Vienna (February 10th to 13th, 2010), one of the biggest ICU meetings in the German speaking part of Europe.\u00a0 In the corridors the most discussed topic was Peter Sawicki&#8217;s dismissal as head of the German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iqwig.de\/\">IQWiG<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>His contract will not be extended and he will be forced to leave office. This institution is in charge of cost effectiveness and covers a similar area of activity like NICE.\u00a0 One of the functions is to decide which drugs will be covered by public insurance.\u00a0The German pharmaceutical industry has been complaining for quite some time that IQWiG and especially Peter Sawicki were preventing them\u00a0from putting new drugs on the market. One of Sawicki&#8217;s main goals was to push industry to allow the IQWiG to read unpublished studies.\u00a0The long list of clashes between Sawicki and industry then focused on concerns in the drug industry\u00a0that the scientific methods used by IQWiG\u00a0were not correct. It is not easy at the moment to clearly distinguish who is right in this discussion.\u00a0The\u00a0opinion amongst German academics is divided.\u00a0According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/wissenschaft\/medizin\/0,1518,673239,00.html\"><em>DER SPIEGEL<\/em><\/a>, Sawicki&#8217;s dismissal was part of politically motivated weakening of IQWiG. The decision not to extend Sawicki&#8217;s contract is based on some inconsistency in his expenses which is thought to be an excuse by all his\u00a0supporters as well as his\u00a0opponents, that\u00a0I have\u00a0spoken to.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Georg R\u00f6ggla<\/strong> is an associate editor with the BMJ.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nutrition in Critical Care Medicine was the main topic in the lectures at the \u2018Wiener Intensivmedizinische Tage\u2019 in Vienna (February 10th to 13th, 2010), one of the biggest ICU meetings [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2010\/02\/23\/georg-roggla-peter-sawickis-dismissal\/\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,1580],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editors-at-large","category-georg-roggla"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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