medical advisory committee

medical advisory committee

A generic, non-specific term used in the UK for a group of health professionals who advise a body on medical matters that impact on the body, including proposed policies and action plans related to safe practices, patient management, whether to adopt new medical technologies and so on. MACs have been convened to advise, variously, NHS executives, commercial divers, dancers, etc.
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