Trish Groves

Trish Groves

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Trish joined the BMJ as its first editorial registrar. She has edited  most sections of the journal over the years and is now deputy editor and senior research editor. Trish is a member of the international groups developing the SPIRIT statement on trial protocols and updating the CONSORT statement on reporting randomised controlled trials, and is on the council of COPE (the Committee on Publication Ethics). She was first author of the HarperCollins Consumer’s Guide to Mental Health (1996), and has written and presented programmes on research and health for BBC World Service Radio, and presented TVam’s DocSpot.
Trish studied medicine at the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, London, and then specialised in psychiatry, gaining MRCPsych. She was also an honorary research fellow at the School for Public Policy, University College London.

Competing Interests
Have you in the past five years accepted the following from an organisation that may in any way gain or lose financially from the publication of papers in the BMJ?
No
a) Reimbursement for attending a symposium?
No
b) A fee for speaking?
I have received fees for speaking, but only from postgraduate centres. If any such fees have been provided by commercial sponsors at academic meetings, I have not been aware of it.
c) A fee for organising education?
No
d) Funds for research?
No
e) Funds for a member of staff?
No
f) Fees for consulting?
No
Have you in the past five years been employed by any organisation that may in any way gain or lose financially from the publication of papers in the BMJ?
I have edited papers for Prescrire International, a journal that receives no funding from pharmaceutical companies.
a) Do you hold any stocks or shares in an organisation?
No stocks or shares, though I belong to the BMA pension fund and do not know what they invest in.
b) Do you have any other competing financial interests?
No
c) I have no competing interests/I have the following competing interests?
I know personally many of the BMJs authors and reviewers, having met them at editorial meetings and at conferences. I try not to let this bias the decisions we make about papers.I have longstanding and academic interests in primary care and psychiatry.

 


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