UK Consultants Conference 2008 - professional collaboration and partnerships for patients
Wednesday 4 June 2008
The 2008 Consultants Conference was held on 4 June in the new Great Hall at BMA House - the first conference to be held in the new venue. The motions passed include new policy on co-payments for medical treatment, consultant expansion, the Darzi reforms, payment by results, and many other important topics.
- A webcast of the conference is now available
- Read the keynote speech by Jonathan Fielden, chairman of the consultants committee
- Motions passed at the conference may be viewed as a Word document or on the policies database
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Ban on co-payments declared 'immoral'
Consultants demand EWTD on-call compliance
Digital records are in patients' interests
End 'vilification' of paediatricians
Patients 'deceived' by Darzi reviews consultation 
Post-CCT fellowships must not continue
Non-medical job titles cause public confusionKeynote address at the Consultants Conference
An edited version of Dr Jonathan Fielden's address is now available on BMAtv on YouTube.Watch the address here
Webcast from Consultants Conference 2008
- A webcast of the conference is now available.
Watch the webcast here
Consultants policies
Search the database for all BMA consultants policies from 2002 onwards.Read more here
See also
- Information on the consultants committees, their members and remit
Read more here