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BMA
abbreviation for
- British Medical Association
Example Sentences
Alongside this, the BMA also cites a survey published last year of 18,000 of its members, which found nearly nine in 10 of those that responded felt the way AAs and PAs currently work in the NHS always or sometimes posed a risk to patient safety.
The BMA’s plan would essentially restrict their role to assistants – helping with ward rounds, taking bloods and chasing up on scan results and making discharge arrangements.
And the BMA has already launched a legal case against the General Medical Council, which next month is due to start regulating PAs and AAs.
Its Northern Ireland council chair Dr Alan Stout said the minister had told the BMA he was not in a position to make the full pay award.
Some hospitals said overtime rates had been driven up over the past year by the particularly high rates the BMA had told its consultants to ask for to provide strike cover.
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