BMJ 1995;310:532 (25 February)

Letters

BMA's reply

EDITOR,--Mervyn Rosenberg's letter betrays some important misunderstandings about the role of the BMA and its craft committees. Certainly a major role of the craft committees is to negotiate terms and conditions of service for their constituents, but this is by no means their only function. The Central Consultants and Specialists Committee, for example, represents the views and interests of senior hospital doctors on a much wider range of issues that have nothing to do with terms of employment. These include medical staffing, NHS funding and the internal market, complaints procedures, information technology, and management structures. The committee is conscious that its policies on these issues will be truly representative of the views of the body of senior hospital doctors only if they are formed with input from clinical and medical directors, who are an integral and increasingly influential part of that body.

There has been mounting pressure from BMA members . . . [Full text of this article]


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