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Read news stories, features and analysis below about the latest developments in healthcare from the award winning team of journalists at The Doctor magazine

Here to help: refugee doctors

Doctors who desperately want to work, in a country that desperately needs doctors – but it’s far from simple for those leaving war-torn countries to practise in the UK. Jennifer Trueland meets two who are benefiting from a scheme to help their language skills, while Tim Tonkin hears about an initiative which offers continuing medical education

Life at Work By Jennifer Trueland and Tim Tonkin

ARM debates prioritisation on specialty training programmes

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

By Ben Ireland 26.06.25

‘Placeholder’ doctors face double whammy

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

By Peter Blackburn 26.06.25

BMA members vote to help fix ‘failed’ NHS workforce plan

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

By Ben Ireland 25.06.25

‘Worsening crisis’ in emergency departments

Consultant paints stark picture of daily working life

Peter Blackburn 25.06.25

Locally-employed doctors ‘should be properly paid’

BMA to push for greater levels of membership among cohort

Ben Ireland 25.06.25

Call for ‘stable’ supply of medical professionals

Government plan to double medical school numbers questioned

By Ben Ireland 24.06.25

BMA condemns punitive action taken against climate activist doctors

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

By Ben Ireland 24.06.25

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

By Peter Blackburn 23.06.25