January

News archive

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  Ban on tobacco vending machines welcomed by doctors

  28 January 2012

  A ban on cigarette vending machines has been welcomed by doctors leaders. The new legislation will ...

  Tags: tobacco, Northern Ireland, cigarettes

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  BMA backs Welsh recruitment drive

  28 January 2012

  BMA Welsh secretary Richard Lewis has welcomed a drive to promote Wales as a place to work for ...

  Tags: junior doctors, wales, recruitment

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  Consultants say reforms would strip hospitals of resources

  28 January 2012

  NHS hospitals would be ‘starved of resources’, and the quality of patient care would be ...

  Tags: consultants, Health and Social Care Bill, radiologists, NHS reform, teleradiology

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  GP leaders urge surgeries to resist commissioning coercion

  28 January 2012

  GP leaders have published guidance for surgeries resisting inappropriate behaviour by some CCGs (cli...

  Tags: GPs, commissiong, NHS reform, clinical commissioning groups, CCGs

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  Nobody's perfect: how physical characteristics impact on medical careers

  28 January 2012

  Physical characteristics such as colour blindness and left-handedness present little or no inconven...

  Tags: colour blind, eczema, occupational health, occupational medicine

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  Q and A — BMA Northern Ireland council chair Paul Darragh

  28 January 2012

  BMA Northern Ireland council chair Paul Darragh answers your questions Q What are the greatest chal...

  Tags: Northern Ireland, reform, health and social, prescription charges, leadership

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  Academic job cuts put on hold

  27 January 2012

  A decision on potential clinical academic job losses has been delayed following lobbying by the BMA...

  Tags: medical academics, redundancies

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  Anger growing towards barely-concealed tax on doctors

  26 January 2012

  BMA Northern Ireland has rejected proposals to increase employee pension contributions. It says th...

  Tags: pensions, NHS pension scheme, Northern Ireland

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  Government aims to regulate all public health specialists

  26 January 2012

  Health secretary Andrew Lansley has conceded a key BMA aim, and announced that all public health spe...

  Tags: public health, regulation, NHS reform, BMA public health medicine committee

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  Juniors warn against revising EWTD

  26 January 2012

  Government attempts to revise working time rules are risking patient safety, junior doctors leaders ...

  Tags: juniors, junior doctors, BMA junior doctors committee, EWTD, European Working Time Directive