01 May 2020

Exclusive The BMA’s GP Committee has called on NHS England to reverse ‘unacceptable’ plans for GPs to do weekly ‘virtual rounds’ in care homes from May.

30 April 2020

29 April 2020

Care homes have been told that they may reuse medication in a crisis situation, if the patient for whom it was originally prescribed no longer needs it – for example if they have died.

29 April 2020

GP practices should risk assess their staff who are from black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds in light of emerging evidence they may be at higher risk from Covid-19, NHS England has said.

29 April 2020

29 April 2020

29 April 2020

Coroners are ‘insisting on processes that are at odds with the law’ and risking patients’ lives by stating deaths during the Covid-19 pandemic can only be verified in person by a trained GP or other healthcare professional, the BMA has warned.

29 April 2020

29 April 2020

Exclusive A Lincolnshire foundation trust has become the second to recognise its black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds (BAME) workforce as ‘vulnerable and at risk’.

28 April 2020