All British Medical Association (BMA) articles – Page 31
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NewsCall to address GP numbers 'crisis'
More must be done to address the “crisis” in the number of family doctors working in the NHS, leading medics have said.
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NewsDoctors urged to opt out of working week directive
The Department of Health has pledged to find ways to help more doctors opt out of the European working time directive, which the authority admits has led to rigid shift patterns and had a detrimental effect on training.
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NewsCQC working on special measures regime for GPs
The Care Quality Commission is working on a “special measures” regime for GP practices, the body has confirmed.
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NewsDean Royles to leave NHS Employers
NHS Employers chief executive Dean Royles has resigned to become executive director of human resources at Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust.
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News'Crisis' warning over GP trainees
General practice services could face a crisis if more medical students cannot be persuaded to become GPs, a healthcare academic has warned.
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NewsBMA sues whistleblower surgeon
The British Medical Association is suing a whistleblowing surgeon for legal costs of up to £250,000 following the collapse of a High Court battle.
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NewsFears as GP patients 'turn to A&E'
Strained A&E departments are having to deal with millions of additional patients because people are struggling to get a timely GP appointment, new research suggests.
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Medical graduates should be denied full medical licence, says BMA
Proposals aimed at improving the training of junior doctors will put patients at risk and waste taxpayers’ money, the BMA has said
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Exclusive: Consultants could give up weekend working 'veto'
Hospital consultants could give up their veto on delivering non-urgent care at weekends if employers agree to safeguards
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NewsKeep politics out of NHS, says poll
The vast majority of the public believe that MPs play political football with the NHS, a new poll suggests, as doctors called for the government’s controversial reforms of the NHS to be scrapped.
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NewsBMA: National GP contract will diminish in significance
The nationally agreed GP contract will diminish in significance as CCGs increasingly agree local deals with practices, the BMA’s GP committee chair has acknowledged
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NewsCCG’s break with QOF set to test integration and co-commissioning support
Allowing GPs in a single clinical commissioning group to break away from the nationally agreed quality and outcomes framework will test whether the approach could help drive integration and support co-commissioning, HSJ has been told.
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LeaderNHS England content to let CCGs break free
The organisation is willing to risk BMA disapproval
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NewsBMA: NHS England QOF move spells 'Balkanisation of national healthcare'
Allowing GPs in a single clinical commissioning group to break away from the nationally agreed quality and outcomes framework could lead to the “Balkanisation of national healthcare”, the British Medical Association has warned.
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NewsHollins urges action on learning disabilities care
Exclusive: Ministers will today be accused of failing to implement recommendations from a damning report into the care of NHS patients with learning disabilities.
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GP funding changes 'destabilising'
GP surgeries are being put under severe financial pressure because of changes to the way some practices receive funding, leading doctors have said.
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CommentHR barometer: Debate is hard when the goalposts move
But HR team are rising to the challenge
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NewsExclusive: Trusts plan to withhold incremental pay rises
One in three NHS organisations intend to tame their salary bills by withholding pay increments from staff, a survey of senior HR managers indicates.
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BMA votes against primary care co-commissioning
GPs representatives have voted that clinical commissioning groups should not commission GP services.
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NewsEquality for mental health urged
People with mental illnesses and intellectual disabilities are dying earlier as a result of a failure to address their needs by the NHS, the doctors’ union has warned.