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18 April 2019
The GMC has pledged to introduce steps designed to reduce the number of investigations it carries out into clinical mistakes made by doctors.
11 April 2019
Senior doctors are being forced to bargain their existing contractual rights for access to newly enhanced rules on shared parental leave, the BMA has warned.
10 April 2019
Consultant gastroenterologist Seamus O’Mahony tackled Western society’s attitude to death in The Way We Die Now. His new book – Can Medicine Be Cured? – critiques consumerist attitudes to healthcare. He talks to Tim Tonkin
What price dignity? Well since you ask, 71 pence.
It feels as though every few months there’s another harrowing court case involving cessation of life-prolonging care in a young child.
I’ll have the honour of chairing the BMA annual representative meeting this year, and events like these are a really important time for us to think about the language we use when we talk to each other.
21 May 2019 London
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21 May 2019 Reading
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22 May 2019 Glasgow
financial planning essentials, Scotland
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