BMA calls for NHS constitution

Visa changes could lead to hundreds of doctors leaving the NHS, warns BMA.

Proposed changes to visa rules could lead to hundreds of UK trained doctors leaving the NHS each year, the BMA has warned. In a letter to the Home Office Mark Porter, chair of the BMA, said that recommendations for changes to visa rules made by the Migrations Advisory Committee could harm the medical workforce. In the letter to immigration minister James Brokenshire, Porter asked whether the Ho...

Turning the BMA into print.

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The first BMA Gold Medal.

The BMA in agony.

The BMA suffered agonies last week. And the chairman of its council, Dr Jeremy Lee-Potter, suffered even more. Why the agony and will anything be learnt? Even before the annual representative meeting (the supreme policy making body of the association) had opened in Inverness last week a whispering campaign had begun. It said that Dr Lee-Potter (attending his first such meeting as chairman of co...

An analysis of calls referred to the emergency 999 service by NHS Direct.

INTRODUCTION NHS Direct was launched in West Yorkshire in April 1999. A 999 ambulance can be dispatched to the patient as a result of a call to NHS Direct. The aim of this study is to compare cases that had been referred by NHS Direct via the 999 service, with those who had dialled 999 themselves. METHODS The study was carried out in three accident and emergency (A&E) departments in West York...