A service commemorating the 20th anniversary of the London bombings of 7 July 2005, will be held today at St Paul’s Cathedral. Doctors who treated the injured in the courtyard of BMA House when one of ...

The ARM (annual representative meeting) is the annual meeting of the RB – representatives elected by members from the range of constituent bodies that make up the trade union and professional ...

General practice across the UK is facing chronic underfunding and a drive to replace GPs with workforce trained to a lower standard. We have a UK wide crisis, and each nation faces the same challenges ...

Notes to editors The full statement reads: As trade unions representing workers across the public and private sectors, we stand together in support of Amendment 240 to the Employment Rights Bill, ...

Shared Care Prescribing refers to medication which is initiated by a specialist and ongoing prescribing and monitoring is shared with a GP practice, usually accompanied by guidance or a shared care ...

The BMA council chair has called for the creation of a new medical regulator, solely for doctors, amid ‘prolonged and repeated’ concerns about the GMC. At the association’s annual representative ...

A BMA Scotland survey has found that 7 in 10 resident doctor respondents are concerned around possible unemployment from August 2025 onwards. Concerns have been raised by resident doctors across ...

Like the name suggests, masking is wearing a mask whereby you act, speak, mimic eye contact, mirror, not like yourself, but like you’ve learnt. It’s not just ‘improving your behaviour’, it’s ...

Responding to the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill passing its Third Reading in the House of Commons, BMA medical ethics committee chair Dr Andrew Green said: “The BMA is neutral on the issue ...

You might not agree with the complaint but you can be sorry. You can be sorry you have let the patient down. That doesn’t mean you are admitting negligence or agreeing to pay them compensation.

These include a £4.6bn of investment in the public health grant in England across five years, a move the BMA states would restore funding in real terms to 2015/16 levels and a review of the allocation ...

I know. There’s a lot of uncertainty right now. The stories we’ve heard through recent surveys on GP unemployment have been harrowing – skilled colleagues, in dire financial straits, struggling to ...