News archive
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Government plans to water down the Duty of Candour for primary care and private healthcare
March 5, 2015AvMA will today make a public demand for the Government to change controversial plans to water down the statutory Duty of Candour that will apply to providers of NHS primary care (GPs, dentists and pharmacists) and in private healthcare. Read full Press Release.
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Morecambe Bay Report highlights repeated failures to be open and honest
March 3, 2015AvMA welcomes Professor Kirkup’s report published today, but has called for action at a national level to ensure individual maternity services, regulators and the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman learn from the tragedy at Morecambe Bay. Read full Press Release.
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Medical Innovation Bill Averted
March 1, 2015AvMA welcomes reports that the Medical Innovation Bill will not proceed and that instead there will be an independent review to report on what the real barriers to medical innovation might be and how it can be supported. That is something AvMA had argued was a better approach all along. The majority of leading patients’ […]
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Leading Patient’s charities deem Saatchi’s medical innovation bill ‘dangerous and unnecessary’
February 23, 2015Read today’s coverage in The Times newspaper Read Peter Walsh’s blog on the Medical Innovation Bill
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Court fees: Enhanced Charging
February 19, 2015Following a consultation entitled “Court Fees: Enhanced Charging” which closed December 2014, the government intends to make substantial increases to the court issue fee. These changes will be introduced by way of statutory instrument which is due to be debated in the House of Commons on 23rd February and in the House of Lords in […]