January

News archive

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  Benevolent society reminds med students of finance support

  31 January 2013

  Medical students are being reminded they can apply for financial support from a charity, on the firs...

  Tags: student finance, funding, medical students, entry to medicine

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  BMA reassures doctors over hospital services closure

  31 January 2013

  The BMA has reaffirmed its support for doctors affected by controversial plans to reconfigure hospit...

  Tags: reconfiguration, private finance initiative, emergency department, maternity services, london, westminster parliament, department of health,

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  Medical students call for details on fees value

  31 January 2013

  The BMA is calling for medical schools to provide more information on how they spend students’...

  Tags: tuition fees, student finance, medical students, medical students committee, medical schools

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  MoD told to improve reserve doctor terms

  31 January 2013

  Medical officers should be ‘adequately remunerated for the skills they bring to the reserve fo...

  Tags: armed forces doctors, terms and conditions of service, warfare

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  Northern Ireland's GPs warn against contract workload

  31 January 2013

  Doctors leaders have said GPs in Northern Ireland will be unable to cope with the additional workloa...

  Tags: northern ireland general practitioners committee, gp contract, department of health social services and public safety

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  Smoking exemption for actors angers BMA

  31 January 2013

  BMA Cymru Wales is to voice its opposition to plans to exempt actors on TV and film sets from the sm...

  Tags: tobacco, smoking in public places, tobacco advertsing

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  BMA fights to stop SAS surgery redundancies

  30 January 2013

  The BMA is working to prevent six redundancies at an NHS trust where talks avoided earlier medical j...

  Tags: redundancy, staff, associate specialist and speciality doctors, north west, local negotiating committees

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  BMA makes case for contract fairness

  30 January 2013

  Any changes to doctors’ working conditions must be ‘fair for doctors and good for patien...

  Tags: junior contract, consultant contract, contracts, negotiation

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  E-cigarettes not proven quitting aid, says BMA

  30 January 2013

  E-cigarettes should not be considered a lower risk option to smoking or a way to quit the habit unti...

  Tags: board of professional activities directorate, smoking

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  Fast-track resit offer for trainees

  30 January 2013

  A fast-track system enabling core medical trainees to retake college exams in a short space of time ...

  Tags: royal college exams, specialty doctor, junior doctors