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AvMA calls for patient protection to be at the core of healthcare professional regulation
January 26, 2018Responding to the Department of Health and Social Care’s consultation “Promoting professionalism, reforming regulation”, AvMA welcomes the aim of a more flexible legislative framework but warns that it is important that this does not lead to even greater inconsistency between regulators and a lowering of professional standards overall.
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GPs should not blame patients for their own bad practise
December 21, 2017The Medical Protection Society (MPS) Survey of GPs, reported on in The Times, may be used to attempt to deny justice to patients harmed by negligent medical treatment, AvMA warns.
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Patients and lawyers unite to offer ministers better solutions to clinical negligence legal costs than controversial plans to impose ‘fixed costs’
December 1, 2017Action against Medical Accidents (AvMA), the Law Society and the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers have jointly agreed suggested terms of reference for a working party to reduce legal costs in clinical negligence cases below £25,000 in value.
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Bid now for fantastic auction lots in support of AvMA
November 29, 2017This year marks AvMA’s 35th Anniversary. As part of the celebration we are holding a silent auction to raise much needed funds to support our work in patient safety and access to justice.
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Health Service Safety Investigations Bill
September 14, 2017The draft Health Service Safety Investigations Bill published today would prohibit all information discovered by the Health Service Safety Investigation Body or by accredited trusts from being disclosed – even to patients or their families when the information is directly relevant to what happened in their treatment.