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The long road to consensus

To be an effective voice for patients and doctors in the debate on assisted dying, the BMA had to reach points of consensus between doctors with opposing views. Seren Boyd hears how they got there

Health & Society By Seren Boyd
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Specialty training squeeze

Doctors are fearing mass unemployment because the number of specialty training posts is woefully short. Ben Ireland hears calls for an urgent increase in places, and about the debate over prioritisation

Life at Work By Ben Ireland
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BMA ‘considering next steps’ after ‘disappointing’ High Court ruling

Submission that GMC description of PAs and AAs as medical professionals is ‘irrational’ dismissed

Life at Work By Ben Ireland
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BMA secures right to use evidence in PA challenge

High Court grants association permission to draw on documentation in judicial review against GMC

Life at Work By Tim Tonkin
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Resident doctors re-enter pay dispute with government

Members urged to get ‘ballot-ready’ following delay to DDRB pay recommendation

Pay & Contracts By Ben Ireland
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Bringing it to life – VR in trauma training

Training for mass casualty events is vital, but also difficult and expensive. A British former military doctor is using virtual reality to help colleagues imagine the barely imaginable. By Jennifer Trueland

Health & Society By Jennifer Trueland
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Never forget – COVID and its legacy

Five years on, doctors look back on when the pandemic hit the UK and remember the extraordinary camaraderie but also the stress and exhaustion that still hangs over the health service and many of its staff. Lessons must be learned, they say.

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