The BMA in Belfast

The BMA’s annual representative meeting was held in Belfast from 5 to 8 July. It was chaired by Professor Brian Hopkinson, a consultant surgeon in Nottingham, with Dr George Rae, a GP in north Tyneside, as his deputy. Dr Ian Bogle’s first address to the ARM as chairman of council and the BMA’s support for the junior doctors’ fight against the government were reported on 10 July (pp 74, 128 ).