Doctors call NHS crisis summit

  The BMA has called an emergency meeting of its representatives to solve the crisis in the NHS. BMA council last week voted in favour of holding an SRM (special representative meeting) on 3 May to debate pressures in the health service. Representatives will also discuss how to address low morale and high levels of workload across the medical profession. BMA representative body chair Ian Wilson said: ‘The BMA is calling an emergency meeting of its representatives in response to the crisis in funding and capacity in healthcare, and the effect these have on patient safety and doctors working to help patients. ‘At a time of unprecedented pressures on healthcare and on those who deliver it, it is time to hear from the clinicians and the evidence-based solutions the public needs, not political choices or dogma. 'This will be an opportunity for doctors to highlight their concerns and outline those solutions.’   Further action The SRM comes as the junior doctors committee voted to step up industrial action next month. The nature of the action is due to be announced this week. In a message to members, BMA junior doctors committee chair Johann Malawana said: ‘We know that no doctor wants to take such action, but the refusal of the Government to get back around the table forces us down this road.’ The fourth period of industrial action is due to start at 8am on 6 April and is over the Government’s decision to impose a new contract on j...
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