In response to Andy Burnham's announcements on social care in England made today, Dr Emma Runswick, deputy chair of BMA council, said: "Social care and the NHS are bound inextricably together. As the ...
Doctors are warning that the loss of rural GP practices will put patients at risk after a North Yorkshire medical practice ...
The British Medical Association (BMA) is calling on NHS England to immediately pause the implementation of the International ...
A punitive culture surrounding the enforcement of ‘professionalism’ standards in UK medical schools is causing a chilling ...
The Government has been forced to change its approach to a landmark consultation, as it attempts to retain the General Medical Council (GMC)’s right to appeal decisions made by its own Medical ...
Food and Weight Management: Fixing the food environment, Professor David Strain, chair of the BMA board of science and Dr ...
However, this new research suggests that there are significant issues with how professionalism is defined and applied in medical schools. This UK-wide study draws on responses from 2,573 medical ...
We are now starting a new session and, on behalf of both Stephen Millar and myself, thank you for electing us back as respectively your deputy chair and chair of our retired members committee. The ...
Over the past decade social care has undergone significant reform in terms of the strategic approach to adult social care, the structure and how services are delivered. An important theme has been a ...
Profit control measures in dispensing practice (known as the NHS ‘clawback’) are now 25 years old; they no longer reflect the current drug marketplace and expose dispensing practices to financial ...
Medicine has become ‘taskified’. Complex decisions and processes about patient care are reduced to fragmented tasks, which ...
Responding to Yvette Cooper’s appointment as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, BMA council deputy chair Dr Emma Runswick said: “We welcome Yvette Cooper to the role of Health Secretary ...