GMC should hold conflicts of interest register for all doctors, says McCartney

All UK doctors should be required to submit their declarations of interest to a public register held by the General Medical Council, the GP and former columnist for The BMJ Margaret McCartney has argued.

In a session focusing on doctors’ links to industry at the Royal College of General Practitioners conference in Glasgow on 5 October, McCartney said that while the medical regulator encouraged doctors to be transparent, it hadn’t yet …