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  • Morecambe Bay Report highlights repeated failures to be open and honest

    March 3, 2015

    AvMA 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.

  • Medical Innovation Bill Averted

    March 1, 2015

    AvMA 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’ […]

  • Leading Patient’s charities deem Saatchi’s medical innovation bill ‘dangerous and unnecessary’

    February 23, 2015

    Read today’s coverage in The Times newspaper  Read Peter Walsh’s blog on the Medical Innovation Bill

  • Court fees: Enhanced Charging

    February 19, 2015

    Following 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 […]

  • AvMA gives evidence to Public Administration Select Committee

    February 10, 2015

    AvMA’s CEO, Peter Walsh, today gave evidence to the Public Administration Select Committee which is looking into NHS Complaints and Clinical Failure.  You can view Peter Walsh’s oral evidence and AvMA’s written evidence on the Committee’s website.

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