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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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  Can this shift to community care become a reality?

  17 May 2013

  The philosophy behind the planned changes to Northern Ireland’s health service, with a focus o...

  Tags: community care, NHS reform, northern ireland, transforming your care, reconfiguration, NHS watch

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  Doctors seek complete openness over clinical trials

  10 May 2013

  The UK should produce a mandatory open register of all clinical trials, a BMA conference said. Medic...

  Tags: academics conference, clinical trials, medical academics, BMA medical ethics, COMAR

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  Call for full trainee representation on medical education bodies

  10 May 2013

  Trainees should be represented on all the new bodies that have taken over responsibility for medical...

  Tags: academics conference, COMAR, medical academics, medical students, BMA medical education

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  BMA releases doctors' guide to medical ethics dilemmas

  10 May 2013

  A new guide by the BMA will help doctors tackle some of the dilemmas that they face on a daily basis...

  Tags: BMA medical ethics, medical records, patient confidentiality, doctor-patient relationships, violence at work, refusal to treatment, consent to treatment

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  BMA research panel wants your views

  9 May 2013

  Wanted: doctors keen to share their opinions with the BMA. The association’s health policy an...

  Tags: research, full members, BMA

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  Move to assess cancelled outpatient appointments

  9 May 2013

  A working group is being set up to assess data relating to the number of cancelled outpatient appoin...

  Tags: consultants, northern ireland, patient appointments

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  Survey finds communication with NHS staff is lacking

  8 May 2013

  Doctors leaders have urged health boards to engage with staff better after just one in five NHS work...

  Tags: quality of care, work patterns, managers, medical workforce planning, BMA Cymru Wales, NHS Wales

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  Emergency departments struggle to meet patient targets

  1 May 2013

  Northern Ireland’s emergency departments are struggling to cope with demand, the most recent g...

  Tags: emergency department, accident and emergency, targets, patient safety and clinical risk, northern ireland

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  Cuban-style healthcare not suitable for Northern Ireland

  15 April 2013

  Doctors leaders have hit out at the Northern Ireland Assembly after it voted in favour of a proposal...

  Tags: conference of northern ireland local medical committees, northern ireland assembly, northern ireland general practitioners committee