• Taunton and Somerset NHS Trust
• Geriatrician

Declaration on 16 November 2021

Declaration period: 2021

Academic

• Relates to: Research grants
• Income band: £1,000 to under £2,000
• Details: I provide advice to a depresribing project based at Exeter University funded by an NIHR grant looking at attitudes to deprescribing for care homes residents. The allocated funding does to Somerset FTs research fund

Other work

• Relates to: Public relations, Media
• Details: I wrote a book published in Jan 2021 and have had some media coverage as a result. I do talks for independent book shops and other groups, either unpaid or for a donation to Age UK. I have been paid small amounts for articles related to the book, and have done some paid-for talks at literary festivals. 'The Book About Getting Older (for people who don't want to talk about it) includes chapters on overdiagnosis and medication. I am a patron of Age UK Somerset.

Political / membership organisations

• Details: My sister is an MP (Conservative; Vicky Ford)

Declaration on 16 November 2021

Declaration period: 2021

Academic

• Relates to: Research grants
• Income band: £1,000 to under £2,000
• Details: I provide advice to a deprescribing project based at Exeter University funded by an NIHR grant looking at attitudes to deprescribing for care homes residents. The allocated funding goes into Somerset FTs research fund

Other work

• Relates to: Public relations, Media
• Income band: £100 to under £1,000
• Details: I wrote a book published in Jan 2021 by Michael Joseph ( part of Penguin Random House) and have had some media coverage as a result. I do talks (unpaid ) for independent book shops and other groups, and have done some paid for talks at literary festivals. I have been paid small amounts for articles related to the book. 'The Book About Getting Older' includes chapters on overdiagnosis and medication I am a patron of Age UK Somerset

Declaration on 2 February 2021

Declaration period: 2021

Main employment

• Type: NHS
• Details: Consultant geriatrician / Somerset Foundation Trust

Academic

• Relates to: Research grants
• Income band: £2,000 to under £5,000
• Details: I provide advice to a depresribing project based at Exeter University funded by an NIHR grant looking at attitudes to deprescribing for care homes residents. The allocated funding does to Somerset FTs research fund

Other work

• Relates to: Media
• Income band: £100 to under £1,000
• Details: I wrote a book published in Jan 2021 and have had some media coverage as a result. I do talks (unpaid ) for independent book shops and other groups. I have been paid small amounts for articles related to the book. 'The Book About Getting Older (for people who don't want to talk about it) includes chapters on overdiagnosis and medication

Declaration on 17 May 2015

Benefits received from pharmaceutical companies

• Company: Boehringer · Reason for receipt of fees: I have given talks for GPs on frailty, overdiagnosis and overtreatment at 2 sponsored meetings (andI many unsponsored meetings). · Total amount received: £100 to under £1,000

Other declarations

I'm a member of Doctors for the NHS (ex NHSCA) which campaigns for the restoration of the NHS as a publicly funded, publicly provided and publicly accountable service. I fervently believe that we do many things to patients that are unnecessary and often harmful, and that we should do less, but do it better.

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