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The British Medical Association is the trade union and professional body for doctors in the UK.В 
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Unlawful age discrimination in the HSC pension scheme

Take action and support our response to the Department of Finance's consultation on solutions to the age discrimination suffered by members transitioning pension schemes.
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Risk assessment tool

The BMA has endorsed a simple risk stratification tool to help facilitate your work-based risk assessment. The tool uses a scoring mechanism to help you quantify your biological risk to COVID.
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COVID emergency helpline

We're here to help

Contact us for emergency COVID advice 24 hours, 7 days a week. Call 0300 123 1233.
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The BMA can help you navigate and understand issues from annual allowance to pay scales to job planning.
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For 24/7 emergency COVID advice please call us. For all other non-emergency enquiries normal opening times apply.
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The COVID-19 vaccination programme

Following an agreement between the BMA and NHSEI that GP practices will lead the vaccination programme, read our guidance on what the programme involves, what is expected of practices, funding and what you need to do now.

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News
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Risk assessments are more important now than ever

More protection is needed for doctors: especially in the face of a looming, harsh winter
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Trust apologises for GDPR breach

A trust has apologised to a surgeon after it released his name to the media without advance warning, in a breach of data-protection rules.
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In private hands

The response to COVID would be vastly more effective if the billions spent on outsourcing to private sector multinationals were spent on NHS capacity and local expertise instead, a BMA event heard. Peter Blackburn reports
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Events
Family finances made simple
Public health medicine conference virtual Autumn meeting
Held virtually via Teams
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