Competing interests
Arthritis, Pain, pain
ARTHRITIS, CHRONIC HEADACHE
MU is chief investigator or co-investigator on multiple previous and current research grants from the UK National Institute for Health Research, Arthritis Research UK and is a co-investigator on grants funded by the Australian NHMRC and Norwegian MRC. He was an NIHR Senior Investigator until March 2021. He has received travel expenses for speaking at conferences from the professional organisations hosting the conferences. He is a director and shareholder of Clinvivo Ltd. that provides electronic data collection for health services research. He is part of an academic partnership with Serco Ltd., funded by the European Social Fund, related to return-to-work initiatives. He receives some salary support from University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire He is a co-investigator on three NIHR funded studies receiving additional support from Stryker Ltd. Until March 2020 he was an editor of the NIHR journal series, and a member of the NIHR Journal Editors Group, for which he received a fee.FG reports grants from NIHR during the conduct of the study.SJCT reports grants from HTA Improving the Wellbeing of people with Opioid Treated CHronic pain; I-WOTCH HTA 14/224/04, grants from NIHR PGfAR Competition 14 Stage 2 Chronic Headache Education and Self-management Study (CHESS) reference number: RP-PG-1212-20018, grants from NIHR Programme Grant Round 3: RP-PG-0707-10189 “Self-management for Chronic Pain” (COPERS) outside the submitted work.DRE reports grants from NIHR during the conduct of the study and he receives some salary support from NIHR Research Capability Funding via University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire.VN Report no conflicts of interest.