News archive
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AvMA welcomes Hyponatraemia Inquiry recommendations for a duty of candour in Northern Ireland
February 1, 2018Cover ups have no place in a fair and patient safety focused NHS. They not only add insult to injury to the patients/families affected, but are a barrier to learning for patient safety.
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PIC Magazine Award for the Clinical Negligence Rising Star 2018
January 31, 2018Entries are now open for the PIC Magazine Award for the Clinical Negligence Rising Star 2018!
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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.