2005 Archive - About the BMA
Coping with trauma, updated 15 July 2005
Following the tragic event outside BMA House on July 7th the following information has been devised to help you understand your feelings and reactions in the weeks and months ahead.Staff and Associate Specialists Committee annual report 2005
The 2005 Annual Report gives an overview of the Committee's activities through the 2004-2005 session, including contract negotiations, the Doctors' and Dentists' Review Body and appraisal.Improving health - The BMA's challenges to the government
This post-Election document, September 2005, calls on the government to say how they plan to improve public health and help people to lead healthier lives. It identifies how to invest in doctors so that they can lead health improvements.Improving health - consultants
Consultants are proud of the role they play in delivering a high quality, free at the point of access, National Health Service to patients across the United Kingdom. Consultants are keen to see the NHS improve and they constantly lead change, pioneering new techniques and services. Consultants are determined to see equity and freedom of access preserved, with care provided on the basis of clinical need. The BMA challenges the incoming government to engage with consultants to help them deliver the high quality service patients deserve.Improving health - general practice
This post-Election document, July 2005, challenges the government to value GPs and their teams in the NHS. The document lists the policy initiatives that should be taken by government and highlights the role GPs play in improving their patients' health. GPs need investment and support to lead change.Improving health - junior doctors
This post-Election document, July 2005, challenges the government to further invest in junior doctors to enable them to help in improvment across the NHS. It lists the actions that the government should introduce in order to make sure that plans for the reform of junior doctors' training (such as Modernising Medical Careers) are feasible in practice. It also outlines junior doctors' views on NHS workforce planning and NHS modernisation and its implications for training.Improving health - medical academic staff
This post-Election document, July 2005, challenges the government to recognise the important role that is played by medical academic staff in contributing to the future medical workforce and leading research in the development of new treatments. The list of challenges includes supporting medical research capability, recognising the teaching function of academic staff, and addressing the under-representation of women in academic medicine.Improving health - medical students
This post-Election document, July 2005, challenges the government to further invest in medical students to enable them to help in improvment across the NHS. It lists the policy initiatives the government should introduce and outlines medical students' views on widening access into medicine, government funding for medical undergraduate education and student support.Improving health - public health doctors
This post-Election document, July 2005, challenges the government to improve public health, helping people to lead healthier lives. Public health professionals are highly trained and must play a leading role in the formulation of best practice and strategies for public health.Improving health - staff and associate specialists
This Post-Election document, July 2005, challenges the government to further invest in the staff and associate specialists group of doctors to enable then to help in improvement across the NHS. It underlines the largely unrecognised achievements of this group of doctors and outlines the need for reward and recognition of them through the negotiation of a new contract.Annual Report of Council 2005
The 2005 Annual Report gives an overview of the BMA's activities through the 2004-2005 session, including representing members, professional issues and membership services.Central Consultants and Specialists Committee Annual Report 2005
The report begins with an interview with the Chairman of CCSC, Dr Paul Miller, which includes questions about the Committee's achievements over the past year, job plans, clinical excellence awards and pensions.Improving health - BMA theme
The BMA is using the theme 'Improving health' to bring home to members, the media, the public and politicians that the BMA seeks to improve everyone's health in the widest possible sense.Junior Doctors Committee annual report 2005
The annual report of the Junior Doctors Committee covers arrangements for flexible training, European working time directive, overseas doctors, and modernising medical careers.Medical Academic Staff Committee annual report 2005
Annual report for the activities of the Medical Academic Staff Committee - including representing medical academics at work, contracts and pay and careers for academics.Medical Students Committee Agenda, 19 December 2005
This document is the agenda for the meeting of the MSC held on 19 December 2005 in London and includes issues such as bursaries, Modernising Medical Careers and medical care practitionersMedical Students Committee annual report 2005
The annual report of the Medical Students Committee covers foundation programmes, funding and the UK medical school charter.Your thoughts on the events of 7 July in London
A collation of messages from doctors and others on the effect of the bomb blasts in London on 7 July 2005.