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Praise for Covid vaccine roll-out

The development of vaccines and their delivery across the UK during the unprecedented challenges of the pandemic should be viewed as an ‘overall success’, according to Covid inquiry chair

Health & Society By Tim Tonkin

Praise for Covid vaccine roll-out

The development of vaccines and their delivery across the UK during the unprecedented challenges of the pandemic should be viewed as an ‘overall success’, according to Covid inquiry chair

By Tim Tonkin 17.04.26

Centre stage for NHS

The forthcoming Scottish Parliament election in May is an opportunity for the BMA to thrust a spotlight on failings in the NHS and, as BMA Scotland council chair Iain Kennedy says, there is a lot to improve upon

By Jennifer Trueland 15.04.26

Life as an F1 – past and present

Consultant rheumatologist Anisur Rahman and F1 doctor Sarah Al Saad recently worked together on the same firm. They discovered that each had written accounts of their F1 lives, in 1989 and 2025 respectively. So, they imagined a correspondence between their F1 selves, exploring what had changed beyond recognition and what had stayed the same

By Sarah Al Saad and Anisur Rahman 14.04.26

Leaving the door open

Maintaining professional boundaries is ingrained in medical training, and amongst psychiatrists may seem of particular importance. So how much can you, and should you, give of yourself to consultations?

Seren Boyd 08.04.26

Resident doctors embark on fifteenth strike

Frustration at the Government for moving goalposts when deal appeared close

Ben Ireland 08.04.26

Asylum seeker doctors free to work in NHS

BMA welcomes changes to immigration rules which reinstate the right of doctors seeking sanctuary in the UK to practise medicine

Tim Tonkin 30.03.26

The chance to make a difference

What do you do when a patient discloses alcohol misuse? There's definitely no quick fix, but Rachel Phillips was determined that her fellow GPs had access to the best possible resources. Jennifer Trueland reports

Jennifer Trueland 10.03.26

Fighting for compassion

A Sri Lankan doctor came to the UK with his family, determined to make a new life in the NHS. But his death has left his grieving family in immigration limbo. His widow, with support from the BMA, is calling for compassion. Tim Tonkin reports

Tim Tonkin 10.03.26