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Department of health mandate to nhs commissioning board needs improvement
September 26, 2012AvMA’s_Response to the Department of Health Consultation on the proposed mandate for the NHS Commissioning Board (NHSCB) stresses the need to give much more priority to patient safety and to engagement with patients. It also points out that the NHSCB’s responsibilities for investigating complaints about primary care practitioners and about Clinical Commissioning Groups need to be […]
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Apologies bill (Scotland) could make things worse
September 26, 2012AvMA’s response to Consultation on the proposed Apologies (Scotland) Bill being proposed by Margaret Mitchell MSP says that although well intended, the Bill could actually make matters worse in the NHS without an accompanying Duty of Candour with patients when things go wrong in healthcare. AvMA argue that to introduce protection of apologies without a statutory […]
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Ministers agree u-turn on plans to raid brain-damaged babies of clinical negligence compensation
September 24, 2012AvMA has warmly welcomed today’s announcement by the Ministry of Justice that ministers have decided not to go ahead with controversial proposals for a ‘Supplementary Legal Aid Scheme”. Thank you to everyone who has supported our campaign. Read full Press Release.
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AvMA Supports sepsis awareness day
September 13, 2012AvMA is proud to be supporting World Sepsis day and on-going work to promote better awareness, diagnosis and treating sepsis (blood poisoning). Sepsis is thought to be one of the biggest avoidable killers in healthcare today. AvMA has been involved in a number of cases involving late diagnosis / treatment of sepsis. Most recently, AvMA […]