The response to your query is detailed below:

1.    Does each of the hospitals within your Trust have a ‘Declaration of Interests’ Register with information on all types of payments from pharmaceutical companies to Health Care Professionals working at the hospitals?

Please see the attached code of conduct approved in March 2013.  Code of Conduct V5.0A Register of Gifts & Hospitality and a Register of Interests for the Directors is actively maintained within the Company Secretary’s Department.  Registers of interests below that level are maintained at Site Director / Medical Director / Divisional Head of Operations level.  We are currently looking in to launching a Trust-wide electronic Gifts & Hospitality Register.

2.    If there is a ‘Declarations of Interests’ Register, are those declarations voluntary or mandated by your Trust or the individual hospitals?

The declarations are mandatory as laid down in the above Code of Conduct.

3.    Are the Registers (if they exist) accessible to the public? If yes, where

4.    What is the overall budget allocated by your Trust or the individual hospitals within your Trust for the Continuing Professional Development for all qualified doctors? (Please do not include Study Leave budgets.) Unfortunately our chart of accounts only captures training “all inclusive” does not separate out study leave from CPD etc.