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  Care Bill threatens rights and funding, warns BMA

  21 May 2013

  Doctors leaders have expressed concern about the expense and complexity over aspects of the Care Bil...

  Tags: carers, quality of care, mid staffordshire inquiry

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  SAS doctor maintains right to pay during training move

  21 May 2013

  The supreme court has upheld an appeal by a former staff, associate specialist and specialty doctor ...

  Tags: staff associate specialist and specialty doctors, foundation programme, pay protection

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  Drive to reduce heart disease

  21 May 2013

  Welsh health and social services minister Mark Drakeford has published plans to tackle the level of ...

  Tags: cardiovascular disorders, healthy eating, wales

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  Pay cut for locums during appraisals 'unfair'

  21 May 2013

  GPs leaders have branded a decision to end payments to locums undergoing appraisals as ‘grossl...

  Tags: locum doctors, pay, appraisal, general practitioners

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  Gulf trial doctor Karabus returns home

  20 May 2013

  Doctors leaders have welcomed the release of a paediatrician who was held in the UAE (United Arab Em...

  Tags: human rights, medical records, board of professional activities directorate, working abroad

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  Healthcare ruled out of EU-US trade talks after BMA lobbying

  20 May 2013

  Doctors leaders have secured assurances that healthcare provision will not be part of talks aimed at...

  Tags: europe, european parliament, marketisation

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  Doctors keen to help with Mid Staffs consultation, says BMA

  20 May 2013

  The BMA has told the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust special administrators that medical staf...

  Tags: quality of care, west midlands, mid staffordshire inquiry, reconfiguration

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  Obesity rise sparks call for public health promotion

  20 May 2013

  BMA Cymru Wales has stressed the importance of comprehensive public health promotion after the resul...

  Tags: obesity, public health, child healthcare, BMA Cymru Wales, Wales

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  Smoking ban exemption for actors stubbed out

  20 May 2013

  Controversial plans by the Welsh government to introduce a public smoking ban exemption for working ...

  Tags: smoking, smoking in public places, tobacco advertising, Wales

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  Call to improve care pathway training

  18 May 2013

  Junior doctors should receive adequate training to use the LCP (Liverpool Care Pathway) which provid...

  Tags: junior doctors conference, junior doctors, care pathways