NHS financial crisis squeezing medical education, BMA warns

2006-11-14T00:00:00+00:00

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Patient care could be affected by cuts to medical training and education, according to the British Medical Association.

Funding for study leave and academic posts in medical schools has been cut to help tackle deficits. The BMA junior doctors committee has written to health secretary Patricia Hewitt to ask that full funding be restored.

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