Seven days in medicine: 24-30 April 2024

NHS pensionsBMA dismay over judicial review dismissalThe BMA has expressed disappointment at the Court of Appeal’s dismissal of a judicial review into the government’s handling of NHS pension reforms, as it said that doctors were being made to pay for ministers’ mistakes. The judicial review was appealing the government’s attempts to make members pay for the costs of the McCloud remedy—the mechanism put in place to fix mistakes the government made when reforming the NHS pension scheme in 2015. (Full story doi:10.1136/bmj.q935)Mental healthExperts call for more support in schoolsChildren’s mental health support in England should be focused on schools and include the creation of “one stop shop” hubs, said a report from the Centre for Young Lives think tank and the Child of the North project. It called for a radical overhaul of the system that provides mental health and wellbeing support for children and adolescents and warned that one…
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