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ARM debates prioritisation on specialty training programmes

Representatives also call for expansion in places and criticise ‘failure’ of government workforce planning

Health & Society By Ben Ireland
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‘Placeholder’ doctors face double whammy

Doctors without confirmed job locations also left out of on-call rotas

Life at Work By Peter Blackburn
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BMA members vote to help fix ‘failed’ NHS workforce plan

Union to lobby for more senior doctor roles and easing of specialty training bottlenecks

Health & Society By Ben Ireland
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Call for ‘stable’ supply of medical professionals

Government plan to double medical school numbers questioned

Life at Work By Ben Ireland
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BMA condemns punitive action taken against climate activist doctors

Association calls for protections for members engaging in non-violent advocacy

Health & Society By Ben Ireland
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Long Covid – the fight for justice

The first scandal was that doctors were exposed to COVID due to failings in government PPE provision. The second was that those with Long Covid have been denied the support they need, causing huge financial and emotional distress. Recognition of the condition as an industrial disease would be a positive and necessary step. Peter Blackburn reports

Life at Work By Peter Blackburn
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Call for assisted dying safeguards

Patients must have ‘informed choice’ with access to palliative care, doctors agree

Health & Society By Peter Blackburn
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Rowing for Ukraine – a doctor's solo voyage across the Atlantic

Leo Krivskiy was already supporting doctors in Ukraine, but Russia's second invasion led him to an extraordinary 3,300-mile challenge to raise money for vital medical supplies. Seren Boyd reports

Health & Society By Seren Boyd
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Mental health services ‘not safe’

A public inquiry into the deaths of mental health inpatients in Essex has highlighted repeated failings and hopes to effect change across the country. Ben Ireland heard evidence from the latest round of hearings

Health & Society By Ben Ireland
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Climate activist doctor Sarah Benn's suspension extended

Tribunal finds retired GP’s fitness to practise ‘remains impaired’

Health & Society By Ben Ireland
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GPs describe work as ‘unmanageable’

BMA survey shows devastating effect of years of underinvestment in general practice in Scotland

Life at Work By Jennifer Trueland
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Doctors deserve ‘better employers’ to improve working conditions, says health secretary

Wes Streeting calls for NHS leaders to do more to make daily life easier for staff

Life at Work By Ben Ireland
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Skills for the frontline

Anaesthetist Ian Nesbitt tells Jennifer Trueland about his work in giving vital skills to doctors in Ukraine and other conflict areas

Health & Society By Jennifer Trueland
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PA regulation unlawful, claims group of doctors

Anaesthetists United says GMC acts irrationally in its approach to overseeing associate staff

Life at Work By Tim Tonkin

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