About

PubCOI is intended to centralise and make publicly accessible all Conflict of Interest (COI) data for all healthcare professionals, trusts, CCGs, PCTs etc based in the UK.

As it stands, only a very small fraction of COI data is easily available. ABPI disclosures are centralised and publicly accessible via the Disclosure UK website. Other sources of funding as well as any royalties, equities, patents and benefits in kind are hidden in spreadsheets, PDFs, journal appendices and so forth. Indeed in some cases, the data is hidden from public view in its entirely.

This needs to change.

Principles

1. All information is to be publicly disclosed, publicly accessible and publicly searchable.
2. An organisation may be a charity, political party, “think tank”, trust or otherwise: not just a commercial entity.
3. Benefits include everything from a commission for undertaking a piece of research, right through to a cheap promotional pen gifted by an organisational representative.
   
4. An ‘interest’ includes equity, royalties, patents and otherwise.