Richard Sands - Managing Editor of BMJ Open

Competing Interests

Have you in the past five years accepted the following from an organisation that may in any way gain or lose financially from the publication of papers in the BMJ?

a) Reimbursement for attending a symposium?
No
b) A fee for speaking?
No
c) A fee for organising education?
No
d) Funds for research?
No
e) Funds for a member of staff?
No
f) Fees for consulting?
No

Have you in the past five years been employed by any organisation that may in any way gain or lose financially from the publication of papers in the BMJ?
I was briefly employed (<3 months) by the British Society for Rheumatology.
a) Do you hold any stocks or shares in an organisation?
I am a member of the BMA pension plan but am unaware of which firms are invested in
b) Do you have any other competing financial interests?
No