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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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  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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  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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  Legal boost for minimum alcohol price policy

  3 May 2013

  Doctors leaders have welcomed news that the drinks industry has failed in its legal bid to stop mini...

  Tags: minimum pricing, alcohol, scotland,

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  BMA urges MEPs to reject challenge to minimum pricing

  30 April 2013

  The BMA is calling on MEPs to think about the public-health impact of alcohol as they consider Scotl...

  Tags: minimum pricing, alcohol, binge drinking, scotland

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  Cigarette display ban comes into effect

  29 April 2013

  The ban on cigarette displays at point of sale in Scotland’s larger shops has finally come int...

  Tags: tobacco advertising, smoking, age for the purchase of cigarettes, smoking in public places, scotland

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  GPs in Scotland face poorest pay deal

  26 April 2013

  Scottish GPs will get the lowest percentage increase anywhere in the UK following a decision from th...

  Tags: pay, pay protection, general practitioners, review body on doctors’ and dentists’ remuneration, scotland