As a publicly funded NHS hospital provider, our Trust has a duty to ensure that all decisions, especially those involving how we spend public money, are made in an open and honest way, this includes the way in which we buy goods and services. To support this, we ask certain staff members to declare any personal or professional interests that could affect, or appear to affect, their decision-making. These are recorded in our Declarations of Interest Register, which we publish so that the public can see we are working fairly and transparently.

All staff in ‘decision-making’ roles – defined in our Trust as those paid at Band 8b and above and anyone working in procurement or finance must complete a declaration. Others may also need to make a declaration depending on their responsibilities, following the published NHS England guidance https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/managing-conflicts-of-interest-in-the-nhs-guidance-for-staff-and-organisations/.

You can use this register to see which staff have declared interests and what those interests are. This helps make sure that our work continues to meet the highest standards of integrity, accountability, and public trust.