This should be available for all those with family responsibilities
Several PCTs have decided to pay nothing at all towards these locum costs (which are considerable). This will deter practices from employing a woman doctor. MWF is campaigning for a national agreement...
This anomaly applies not only to women doctors, but to all women working in the NHS....
MWF have had meetings with the Advisory Committee on Clinical Excellence Awards (ACCEA) to ensure that women doctors are fairly represented on the committees which allocate the awards...
MWF have collected data about gender distribution in academic medicine, which shows that only ten per cent of professors are female and two medical schools have no female professors at all...
MWF have representatives on the BMA ‘Family Strategy Working Group – an Ideal Framework for Childcare Support in the NHS’, and we have leaflets which give sources of support at student and junior doctor level.
Follow the links above to read about a specific campaign that MWF are involved in or below to read more generally about the kind of issues facing women doctors and patients that MWF works to improve.
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