Articles

‘From rescuer to coach’

Serious concerns about her own wellbeing led GP Katharine Jones to come to an important realisation. She tells Jennifer Trueland how she has embraced lifestyle medicine, encouraging patients to take responsibility for improving their health.

Doctors' Wellbeing Life at Work Jennifer Trueland

A hard road: a doctor's struggle

A refugee Jewish doctor who escaped Nazi Germany to flourish in a working-class northern town is celebrated in a new book

By Phil Clark 26.11.24

Your BMA: a magazine with clout

As The Doctor goes fully digital, I would like to celebrate some of its achievements so far

By Latifa Patel 19.11.24

In it together: preventive healthcare initiatives

Through community projects designed to nip health issues in the bud, GPs are aiming to give the power – and responsibility – for good health back to their patients

By Seren Boyd 18.11.24

GPs demand solutions on pay and indemnity

Northern Ireland’s health minister faced tough questions at the conference of LMCs

Jennifer Trueland 18.11.24

Doctors short-changed on pay rise

Northern Ireland sees remuneration pledge slow to materialise

By Jennifer Trueland 14.11.24

BMA welcomes pay cut U-turn

Association calls off dispute in Birmingham after planned cut to overtime pay is scrapped

By Tim Tonkin 14.11.24

The human factor: the effects of remote working on doctor and patient

The pandemic saw a rapid shift in general practice towards remote care and many of the innovations remain in hybrid form – but what effect do they have on patients? Two leading GPs set out to find out the answers and came to some worrying conclusions

By Peter Blackburn 11.11.24

GPs warn increase in employer NICs ‘could be the end of us’

Calls for government to reimburse costs to practices in plans to fix NHS ‘front door’

Ben Ireland 08.11.24