Articles

Elgan Manton-Roseblade and Callum Williams

UK foundation programme recruitment needs urgent change

Many medical students find their allocation to be both delayed and hundreds of miles away from friends and family causing considerable distress

Comment Elgan Manton-Roseblade and Callum Williams

GPs eye alternative careers, finds survey

Army of doctors desperate for work forces many to rethink future, the BMA discovers

By Ben Ireland 22.04.25

BMA ‘considering next steps’ after ‘disappointing’ High Court ruling

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

By Ben Ireland 17.04.25

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

By Ben Ireland 17.04.25

Students call to expand specialty training places

BMA medical students conference hears demands to protect mental health and tackle sexism

By Tim Tonkin 16.04.25

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

By Seren Boyd 14.04.25

BMA secures right to use evidence in PA challenge

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

By Tim Tonkin 14.04.25

Protest outside GMC offices in support of climate activist doctors

UN special rapporteur ‘extremely concerned’ about treatment of jailed GP Patrick Hart

By Ben Ireland 11.04.25

Resident doctors re-enter pay dispute with government

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

By Ben Ireland 09.04.25