March

News archive

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  Academic redundancy plans a national disgrace

  24 March 2012

  Senior clinical lecturers recruited to make medical academic careers more attractive are facing redu...

  Tags: medical academic staff committee, medical academics

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  BMA defends national pay agreements

  24 March 2012

  The BMA has renewed warnings that different regional pay rates would widen health inequalities. Th...

  Tags: local and regional pay, terms and conditions of service, central consultants and specialists committee, pay, NHS Employers

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  BMA endorses HIV proposals

  24 March 2012

  Doctors leaders have welcomed plans to allow HIV-infected medics to continue treating patients if th...

  Tags: BMA Cymru Wales council, doctors health, occupational health and safety

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  Lost-tribe risk of training breaks

  24 March 2012

  Junior doctors leaders have said postgraduate training could be enhanced if it were more flexible an...

  Tags: junior doctors committee, flexible working arrangements

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  BBMA Q and A: what lies ahead for occupational medicine?

  24 March 2012

  BMA occupational medicine committee chair Paul Nicholson answers members' questions Q What has the...

  Tags: BMA occupational health committee, occupational physician,

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  Olympics offer health legacy

  24 March 2012

  The Olympic Games has the chance to change the nation’s health for the better, the BMA public ...

  Tags: public health medicine committee, public health medicine and community health doctors

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  Outcomes of an extra year of GP training

  24 March 2012

  More ‘confident and able’ doctors have been the result of extended training pilots so f...

  Tags: general practitioners, GP trainee, BMA general practitioners committee

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  Rallying cry to resist managerial interference

  24 March 2012

  Welsh doctors leaders have highlighted a shortage of up to 400 doctors and hit out at ‘manager...

  Tags: BMA Cymru Wales, job vacancies

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  Revised formula for dispensing GPs

  24 March 2012

  GP leaders and NHS Employers have agreed a revised formula for payment to dispensing doctors.  ...

  Tags: general practitioners committee, general practitioners

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  Shortage of consultant posts poses threat to careers

  24 March 2012

  Significant numbers of public health trainees may come to the end of their training without having s...

  Tags: public health medicine committee, Northern Ireland committee for public health medicine and community health, junior doctors, staff and associate specialists