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=== Conflict of interests === ====Disability benefits work==== Peter White has performed paid and unpaid work for the United Kingdom's [[Department for Work and Pensions]] (DWP)<ref name=":19" /><ref>Williams M. [http://www.investinme.org/Article405%20DWP%20&%20PACE.htm The involvement of the PACE Trial Principal Investigators and the Director of the Clinical Trials Unit with the Department for Work and Pensions.] March 2011.</ref>, which is the government department responsible for administering and reforming the assessment of sickness and disability payments, including the controversial Employment Support Allowance (ESA)<ref>{{Cite news | url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-37899305| title = UK accused of disability rights violations | last = BBC news | first = | date = 2016-11-07|work=|access-date=2019-08-22|archive-url=|archive-date=|language=en-GB|quote= | author-link = BBC}}</ref> and Personal Independence Payments (PIP)<ref name="Briefing2019">{{Citation | last = Clark | first = Adam | author-link = | last2 = Bellis | first2 = Alexander | authorlink2 = | last3 = O'Donnell | first3 = Michael | author-link3 = | last4 = Jap | first4 = Bess | author-link4 = | last5 = McInnes | first5 = Roderick | authorlink5 = | last6 = Mackley | first6 = Andrew | authorlink6 = | last7 = Kennedy | first7 = Steven | last8 = | first8 = | date = 2019-04-18| title = Ten years of the work capability assessment in relation to employment support allowance and universal credit {{!}} Debate pack | url =https://researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefing/Summary/CDP-2019-0092 | website = House of Commons Library {{!}} Parliament UK|access-date=Sep 14, 2022|quote=|via=}}</ref> for people of working age. White helped draft the DWP's initial ''disability assessment guidelines for CFS'' from 2005 - 2007, which were rejected by all UK ME charities as "unfit for purpose".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.meassociation.org.uk/2007/07/mea-responds-to-version-10-of-the-dwp-medical-guidance/| title = MEA responds to Version 10 of the DWP medical guidance | last = ME Association | first = | authorlink = ME Association | date = Jul 2007 | website = |language=en-GB|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2019-08-23|quote="For the past two years we have been in negotiation with the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) in order to try produce new medical guidance that will be free from psychiatric bias and will properly reflect the spectrum of ill health and disability that is experienced by people with moderate or severe ME/CFS"}}</ref><ref name="ParliamentUnum" /> In 2017, the United Nations released a report that was highly critical of the benefits, and of the UK treatment of disabled people.<ref name="Briefing2019" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/amp/entry/dwp-overhaul-of-disability-assessments_uk_5c8a3113e4b038892f4aa755/| title = Ministers Plan Multi-Billion Pound Overhaul of 'Demeaning' Disability Benefit Assessments {{!}} HuffPost UK|website=huffingtonpost.co.uk|access-date=2019-08-22}}</ref> White is member of the Independent Medical Experts Group, which advises the UK's Ministry of Defence regarding its Armed Forces Compensation Scheme and provides paid consultancy to re‐insurance companies.<ref name=":2" /> White did not disclose his financial conflicts of interest to the participants of the PACE Trial, of which he was the lead investigator. According to Journalist David Tuller, The PACE authors “promised in their protocol to adhere to this foundational human rights document, among other ethical codes. Despite this promise, they did not tell prospective participants about their financial and consulting links with insurance companies, including those in the disability sector. That ethical breach raises serious concerns about whether the “informed consent” they obtained from all 641 of their trial participants was truly ‘informed,’ and therefore legitimate.”<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.virology.ws/2017/08/07/trial-by-error-retired-pace-investigator-peter-white-and-swiss-re/| title = Trial by Error: Retired PACE Investigator Peter White and Swiss Re|website=[[Virology blog]]|access-date=2019-08-19}}</ref> ====Health insurance and reinsurance industry links ==== Peter White provides paid consultancy to re‐insurance companies,<ref name=":19" /> including both UnumProvident<ref name="ParliamentUnum">{{Cite web|url=https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200607/cmselect/cmhealth/503/503we79.htm| title = House of Commons - Health - Written Evidence | last = Hooper | first = Malcolm | authorlink=Malcolm Hooper | date = 2007 | website = publications.parliament.uk|at=Para 12|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2019-08-23}}</ref> and Re-Swiss.<ref name="ReSwissMalingering">{{Cite web|url=https://twitter.com/johnthejack/status/1052919934697783296?s=20| title = Attendance at Oxford meeting funded by insurance company. Can upload PACE trial COIs, should you wish which were made before publication of paper but not prior to trial. One Health by TC and PW. Briefing to Swiss Re by PW.pic.twitter.com/LsKkQnMx0E | last = Peters | first = John | date = 2018-10-18 | website = @johnthejack|language=en|access-date=2019-08-23}}</ref><ref name="peter-white-and-swiss-re" /><ref name="Tuller20151117" /> <ref name="SwissRe2011" /> ==== Directorships and Shareholdings ==== Peter White was a director of OneHealth (Company number 04364122) from 2002 to 2010.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.companieslondon.com/uk/04364122/one-health| title = One Health | last = London | first = Companies|website=Companies London|language=en|access-date=2019-08-19}}</ref> The memorandum of association states that the purpose is to promote the biopsychosocial model of illness.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://companycheck.co.uk/company/04364122/ONE-HEALTH/companies-house-data | title = ONE HEALTH. Free business summary taken from official companies house information. Free alerts. Registered as 04364122 | last = ltd | first = company check|website=Company Check|language=en|access-date=2019-08-19}}</ref> From 1999 to the present, White has been a director of Added Value Advisory Services (Company number 03764154), a company that focuses on “management consultancy activities other than financial management.”<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/03764154| title = ADDED VALUE ADVISORY SERVICES LIMITED - Overview (free company information from Companies House)|website=beta.companieshouse.gov.uk|language=en|access-date=2019-08-19}}</ref> Since November 2018 White is also director of PDW Medical Limited, a company that focuses on specialists medical practice activities.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/11702078| title = PDW MEDICAL LIMITED - Overview (free company information from Companies House)|website=beta.companieshouse.gov.uk|language=en|access-date=2019-08-19}}</ref><ref name="Williams2016PW" />
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