Managing conflicts of interest in the NHS: A consultation

Overview

In March 2016 the NHS England Board announced that a Task and Finish Group of experts (to be chaired by Sir Malcolm Grant, chairman of NHS England) would look at the issues around how conflicts of interest in the NHS could be managed.

Over the summer the Group has been developing proposals to ensure that the NHS can:

• Actively manage conflicts of interest and associated issues of gifts, hospitality, other payments and influence
• Provide the public with information so that they can see what is happening and, where appropriate, ask questions
• Proactively support individuals to ensure that they know what is and is not acceptable – to prevent wrongdoing from occurring
• Take firm and decisive action when wrongdoing is discovered
   

More information about the membership of the Group, and its Terms of Reference, is accessible from the NHS England website.

In this consultation the outputs of the Task and Finish Group’s work is presented for your views.

The questions in this consultation correspond to the questions contained in the Task and Finish Group’s consultation document. Therefore, you should have this to hand when responding.

Why we are consulting

What happens next

We will publish a response to this consultation later in the year.