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Professional Discipline: New GMC Legislation To Be Laid This Week

As readers will be aware, the rumbling news story within the area of professional discipline has been the regulation of Physician Associates (“PAs”) and Anaesthesia Associates (“AAs”) by the General Medical Council (“GMC”). As already covered on our website, the British Medical Association (“BMA”) has raised concerns regarding the similarity of title(s) with doctors, the …

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Pharmacists To Play A Critical Role In Vaccination Delivery

News / By Nicola Wheater

The Health and Social Care Committee (“HSCC”) have recommended that pharmacists play a ‘critical role’ in the delivery of vaccinations within the UK to improve vaccination access. Whilst agreeing with the Director of Market Access and Policy Affairs of Moderna, Stuart Carroll that pharmacists ‘deliver a significant number of vaccines already’, the HSCC agreed that …

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Junior doctors begin longest strike yet in England

News / By Oliver Brown

Today junior doctors in England have begun their longest walkout yet, in protest over pay. They are demanding a 35% pay rise, which the government has refused to offer. The strike started at 07:00 on Thursday 13 July 2023 and will end at 07:00 on Tuesday 18 July 2023. The strike is expected to cause …

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NHS Workforce Plan – Battling the Staffing Crisis

Articles & Publications / By Jennifer Durbin

The NHS Workforce Plan (“Plan”), published on Friday 7 July 2023, outlines a number of Government interventions designed to reform the NHS workforce in a sustainable way for the future. This could not come at a more crucial time amidst the strikes over pay and working conditions in general. The Government has backed the Plan …

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NHS misses targets in England to tackle care backlogs

News / By Oliver Brown

On 11 May 2023 NHS England announced that it has failed to meet key targets to tackle the backlogs in cancer care and routine treatment. The number of people waiting more than 18 months for treatment has fallen by over 90%, but there are still a record 7.3 million people on an NHS hospital waiting …

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Premium Pay Demands Leave NHS Bosses Unsympathetic

News / By Jennifer Durbin

As many will be aware, strikes have been ever-present in the healthcare sector, only serving to aggravate staffing crisis. In particular, NHS staff are extremely dissatisfied with their pay and demanding they get the recognition they deserve by means of pay rises to battle the 26% decrease after inflation is taken into account. Recently, the …

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NHS Consultants Ready to Strike

News / By Jennifer Durbin

The British Medical Association (BMA) took a consultative ballot and it revealed that Consultants in England are supportive of industrial action. This comes off the back of a long string of strikes my medical and healthcare professionals alike over issues of pay, long work hours, and not enough staff. According to the union, consultants have …

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NHS Recruitment Mission in India

News / By Jennifer Durbin

In order to help ease pressures on the health and social care sector due to staff shortages, the NHS is planning to send representatives to India with a view to returning with new recruits. The sector has become more reliant on international workers, especially as the local workforce has left the sector for better paid …

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NHS set to buy care beds to make space in hospitals

News / By Oliver Brown

Thousands of NHS patients in England will be moved into care homes as part of the government’s plan to ease the unprecedented pressure on hospitals. On 9 January 2023 The Department of Health and Social Care (“DHSC”) have announced that an additional funding of £250m will be given to the NHS to buy thousands of …

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NHS ambulance workers begin to vote on strike in pay dispute

News / By Oliver Brown

More than 15,000 ambulance workers across 11 different trusts in England and Wales have started voting on a potential strike action in a dispute over pay. The GMB union said workers were angry at a pay award of 4% which it has described as a ‘massive real terms pay cut.’ If strikes go ahead, this …

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