BMA: pushing back on inappropriate workload

  • Template letters

Letter templates, guidance, case studies and other practical resources from the BMA's campaign to help you manage your daily work.

Click here to access the page, which includes:

  • Secondary care work transfer
  • Inappropriate prescribing requests
  • Requests to follow up investigations performed in other settings
  • Requests for post-operative checks
  • Letter to hospital provider regarding discharge of patients after missed appointment
  • Letter to local ICB regarding discharge of patients after missed appointment
  • Letter to IBC regarding inappropriate workload transfer
  • Letter for request to complete non-contractual administrative task
  • Requests for work absence sick notes for less than seven days
  • Letter to area team regarding delay to information request or payment
  • Letter to hospital provider regarding follow up of diagnostic test results following a patient’s discharge from hospital
  • Letter to ICB in response to requests to follow up investigations performed in other settings.

These documents were initially published as part of the BMA’s ‘Qualify First’ campaign.