Lifetime and annual allowances
‘Complexities of NHS pension scheme’
The British Medical Association (BMA) has voted in favour of industrial action in protest against reforms to the NHS pension scheme.
Doctors have hit back at proposals that would force them to encourage patients to stay in or go back to work as soon as possible.
Subject access requests and online technology have opened the debate over GP reports. Ian Smart asks if this could remove a perennial insurance bugbear.
The news that the ABI and British Medical Association (BMA) agreement on GP report (GPR) fees has broken down will usher in a period of uncertainty.
The British Medical Association (BMA) has called for the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) to extend its private healthcare market review to include insurers' fee schedules.
Bright Grey and Scottish Provident have warned that insurers could be "shooting themselves in the foot" by changing the way they request medical evidence from GPs.
Doctors have branded the government's current structural NHS changes in preparation for its reforms as ‘chaotic and poorly co-ordinated'.
A row is brewing involving doctors and insurers that may result in advisers and their clients being stuck between the two factions.