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BMA
abbreviation for
- British Medical Association
Example Sentences
The decision was heavily criticised by some staff with the doctors’ union, the BMA, calling it a "matter of life and death".
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.
They said it was not in the BMA's interests to renegotiate these "outdated" contracts, more than 20 years old.
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.
But BMA consultant co-leaders Dr Helen Neary and Dr Shanu Datta said: “Unfortunately, a declining workforce in crisis and spiralling patient demand - which has led to sky high waiting lists - means that extra hours of work are essential to get the job done.”
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