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15 October 2019
The BMA has demanded answers from a hospital trust after it suggested it would put requests for rota-monitoring information from doctors ‘on hold’
11 October 2019
Doctors who want to support the health service by caring for colleagues in need, are being urged to sign up to the BMA’s peer support service.
10 October 2019
GPs in Northern Ireland could see their administrative burdens eased thanks to an initiative aimed at simplifying the legal request process for patient records.
It has been an absolute privilege to serve on your behalf as chair of JDC.
‘Primum non nocere’ (‘First, do no harm’) doesn’t actually appear in the Hippocratic Oath, but it’s what most people will think of first if you ask them about it.
Apparently there are four main types of error in medicine: failure to consider a possible diagnosis, failure to examine or investigate appropriately, failure to interpret signs correctly or failure to record ones’ actions.
15 November 2019 London
medico legal committee, medico-legal committee
15 November 2019 Templepatrick, County Antrim
20 November 2019 London
BMA careers, bmj learning, learning and development, leadership
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