GPs express “deep concern” over BMA’s suspension of Farah Jameel

GPs have “no confidence” in the BMA’s complaint resolution process and have said that the association’s lack of transparency in its suspension of Farah Jameel, the chair of its General Practitioners Committee, was “unacceptable and at odds with the BMA’s own values.”In an emergency motion passed on 24 November at the conference of England’s local medical committees, GPs raised “deep concern” over the suspension and were concerned in particular about the “optics of this action being taken against a colleague in the final stages of pregnancy.” The BMA suspended Jameel in early November because of complaints by its staff, reports said.1Before the conference debated the motion members of the press were ejected from the room.In the motion GPs said that they also believed that the way the episode was handled was “contradictory to the recommendations of the Romney report into institutional sexism within the BMA.”In 2019 Daphne Romney QC conducted…
Read Original Article: GPs express “deep concern” over BMA’s suspension of Farah Jameel »