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Redefining health

A GP wants to change the way her colleagues and patients think about health – and many say they have already benefited from the new approach. Jennifer Trueland reports

Doctors' Wellbeing By Jennifer Trueland
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GP practice closure forces decision review

Training, systems and processes must be reassessed to ensure future changes are supported by proper consultation, states report

Health & Society By Peter Blackburn
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BMA announces strike ballot on pay for resident doctors

Government fails to commit to pay restoration forcing doctors leaders to take further industrial action

Pay & Contracts By Tim Tonkin
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BMA describes GMC’s attitude to patient safety as ‘indifferent’

Regulator’s approval of PA and AA training courses lambasted by doctors leaders

Life at Work By Tim Tonkin
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Call to end ‘corridor care’

Petition to end use of unacceptable treatment locations submitted by doctors leaders

Health & Society By Tim Tonkin
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A life-shortening inequality — how patients with learning disabilities are let down

Patients with learning disabilities die earlier, and are more likely to die from avoidable causes. Campaigners say there needs to be better training, more specialist staff and greater insight into their complex needs. Seren Boyd reports

Health & Society By Seren Boyd
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Call to support GP practices

£290m needed to deliver funding restoration to stabilise general practice, says BMA Scotland

Health & Society By Jennifer Trueland
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