Article: More choose to be GPs.(News)

Article: GP's constant calling ; DR BRIAN PATTERSON is one of Northern ...
Belfast Telegraph;  August 26, 2003 ;     700+ words ...Dr Patterson steps down as chairman of the BMA's GPs Committee in Northern Ireland in September after six years at the helm. Here, he tells NIGEL GOULD, of how life as a GP has ...

Article: I'LL QUIT GP's JOB; IT'S THE time of year that reveals the NHS ...
Birmingham Evening Mail (England);  January 31, 2003 ;     607 words ...Byline: MAUREEN MESSENT DON'T be fooled by the name. Twenty-nine-year-old Dr Priyanand Hallan is as Black Country as faggots and peas - and that's half his problem. 'I want to repay the local community and Britain for training me,' says Dr Hallan, a doctor for West Bromwich Albion and season

Article: Right of Reply: Jonathan Reggler A member of the British ...
The Independent - London;  January 26, 1999 ;     461 words ... ... 23 January assumes that the British Medical Association (BMA) sees the ... State for Health, and advised GPs to prescribe Viagra to those ... Firstly, NHS regulations ruling GPs' lives explicitly require us ... him. Secondly, whilst most GPs accept that rationing in the ...

Article: Dangerous doctors. (British Medical Association ...
The Economist (US);  August 19, 1989 ;     700+ words ... ... the Department of Health and the British Medical Association have been slugging ... worried about Labour than about the British Medical Association (BMA), that bastion ... lives easier by accommodating the GPs and drug companies, who are the ...

Article: The British Medical Association: the worst of all ...
The Independent - London;  July 2, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... yawning, there's a very good reason. The British Medical Association conference season is upon ... more cranky solutions like closing all GPs surgeries. We probably do need a revolution ... represent three principal groups. Those are GPs, hospital consultants and doctors in ...

Article: GP comes up with 'cure-all' for NHS; Plan for local control is ...
The Journal (Newcastle, England);  January 26, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... Ford's argument is published today in the British Medical Journal in response to British Medical Association chairman James Johnson's prediction ... Trusts and take charge of all NHS services from GPs to complex hospital operations. Yesterday ...

Article: Patients who miss GP appointments cost GBP21M a year ...
Evening Times;  August 24, 2005 ;     581 words ... ... it" campaign was launched today, the British Medical Association said it would oppose any clamour ... deputy chairman of the BMA's Scottish GPs Committee, condemned irresponsible patients ... for not turning up. The survey of 92 GPs found eight out of 10 practices complained ...