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  Conflicting concerns: doctors' interests and the new NHS

  10 May 2013

  The BMA believes measures should be introduced to prevent conflicts of interest in the new-look NHS....

  Tags: clinical commissioning groups, NHS commissioning board, commissioning, general practice, conflict of interest, NHS, consultants, public health

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  GP raises alarm over fragmentation of practice services

  30 April 2013

  A GP has expressed concern about the fragmentation of NHS care after ancillary services were moved f...

  Tags: practice premises, nhs watch, nhs reform, general practice, general practitioners committee, north west

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  BMA holds election for sessional GP representatives

  29 April 2013

  Salaried and locum GPs are being urged to vote to elect those doctors who will represent their inter...

  Tags: sessional GPs, salaried GPs, election candidates, general practice, general practitioners committee,

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  GPs not to blame for emergency pressures

  25 April 2013

  Government claims that GPs are to blame for pressures on emergency care are missing the point and ar...

  Tags: general practice, general practitioners committee, out-of-hours services, emergency department

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  Programme to complete MMR vaccinations backed by BMA

  25 April 2013

  GP leaders have backed an MMR vaccination catch-up programme to help prevent future measles outbreak...

  Tags: mmr vaccination, general practice, general practitioners committee, england, wales

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  GP leaders oppose compulsory CCG membership conflicts

  22 April 2013

  GP partners risk being put in a position of ‘untenable conflict’ by compulsory practice ...

  Tags: general practice, general practitioners committee, conflict of interest, clinical commissioning groups, patient safety and clinical risk, nhs

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  BMA prepares support initiative for GPs

  19 April 2013

  The BMA is to launch an initiative to support GPs and patients through the challenges facing general...

  Tags: general practice, general practitioners committee, nhs reform, nhs

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  Locum pension changes cause funding dilemmas

  19 April 2013

  Doctors leaders are calling for the way GP locum pension payments are handled to be centralised in E...

  Tags: locum doctors, pensions, practice-based funding, general practice

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  Uncertain future for PMS practices as funding changes loom

  17 April 2013

  GP leaders today warn family doctors that changes to practice funding will have a ‘profound ef...

  Tags: general practice, gms contracts, pms contracts, funding, general practitioners committee

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  Call to stop general practice funding cuts

  15 April 2013

  Health bosses in Northern Ireland must act urgently to address the progressive erosion of general pr...

  Tags: conference of northern ireland local medical committees, general practice, funding, northern ireland general practitioners committee, department of health social services and public safety