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Healthcare policy- Better health, better care: BMA Scotland consultation response
- BMA Scotland response to consultation on a proposed Patient Rights Bill
- Social Partnership Forum
The BMA is a member of the Forum - read more about it
- BMA policy database
A complete listing of current BMA policy from the annual meetings, conferences and branch of practice committees
- FAQs: Issues facing the NHS
Commonly asked questions about issues facing the NHS
- Health policy links
Useful links to health policy websites.
Healthcare policy
NHS reform related
Health and Social Care BillThe Health and Social Care Bill was published on 19 January 2011. Read up on the background information, the consultations and our responses.
Public Health White PaperThe Department of Health published a Public Health White Paper, 'Healthy Lives, Healthy People' on 30 November 2010.
The future of Postgraduate Medical Education and TrainingRead the BMA response to the NHS Future Forum listening exercise 'education and training: how to develop the healthcare workforce to deliver world-class healthcare'.
In this report the key areas of medical education and training, recruitment and retention, and accessibility and sustainability of healthcare are examined in the rural context, with a focus on primary care. UK and international examples of good practice are included and recommendations for action made.
The first NHS Outcomes Framework 2011-2012 was published in December 2010 following proposals put forward in the White Paper consultation 'Transparency in outcomes – a framework for the NHS'.
Summary of the operating framework for 2011-12 which builds on the policies set out in the 'Revision to the Operating Framework for the NHS in England 2010-11'.
Find out what a quality account is, who has to produce them, their purpose and how the BMA is involved.
This briefing outlines the policy context around NHS Choices (the Department of Health's digital gateway and public front door to the NHS) the site's main features, planned future developments and the BMA's involvement to date.
The NHS would become both more cost-effective and equitable if it were operated on its founding principle of co-operation rather than competition, a group of medical bodies, unions and healthcare experts say today.
A briefing note on the quality, innovation, productivity and prevention programme in England to reform NHS services amidst the recession.
Information and advice on how staff and trade unions should be engaging with primary care trusts (PCTs), strategic health authorities (SHAs) and potential new providers on the Transforming Community Services process.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is the new independent regulatory body for healthcare, adult social care and the operation of the Mental Health Act 1983 in England. This briefing note explains the key changes to the structure and process of regulation applicable to NHS and independent healthcare providers for 2009/10 and beyond.
This document has been developed by the UK GPC of the BMA as a distillation of views about the ways in which general practice is moving foward and evolving.