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We are required to make a declaration of interests that might affect our judgment or prejudice us. I will declare my interests first. I have no commercial ties with any body that is connected with health but I have been a fund-raising trustee of the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Glasgow for 19 years. I have received no payment or expenses in connection with that role. I am a patron of the mental health body, No Panic, and a member of the Medical Journalists Association, but the idea is that the members pay it, not that it pays them.
I am a member of the public sector union, Unison. I receive no financial gain from that role, but I want my membership to be noted.
I will be a partner in general practice and will be employed as a psychiatrist until I can complete my notice. I am employed as a medical adviser on adoption and fostering. I chair an educational group on prostate disease that is sponsored by Merck Sharpe and Dohme. I have a directorship of an organisation called Nursing Home Management, which has nursing home beds in England. I will undertake some locum work as a medical practitioner. I write articles for various medical journals. I am a member of the British Medical Association, the Royal College of General Practitioners, the Royal College of Psychiatrists, the British Association of Psychopharmacology and the Scottish Association for Mental Health. Finally, I have an honorary professorship of psychology at Stirling University, where I am engaged in medical research.
Gosh, you are busy. We are quite stunned by such industry.
That is a hard act to follow. I am a simple, ordinary member of Unison. Like Margaret, I would like my membership registered, although I receive no pay for it.
Does anyone else want to declare an interest? People will be able to declare interests at subsequent meetings if they have forgotten that they had them.
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