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Bot-ched advice – 'disturbing' results in AI study

Chatbots do quite well in diagnosing conditions ... but only in other chatbots, new research has found. Peter Blackburn reports

Health & Society By Peter Blackburn

Immigration rule reform will affect overseas doctors, says BMA

Letter to home secretary outlines critical role played by international medical graduates

By Tim Tonkin 11.07.25

Bot-ched advice – 'disturbing' results in AI study

Chatbots do quite well in diagnosing conditions ... but only in other chatbots, new research has found. Peter Blackburn reports

By Peter Blackburn 10.07.25

7th July – the doctors who ran towards danger

One of the four bombs which exploded in London on 7 July 2005 was on a bus outside BMA House in Tavistock Square. Peter Blackburn hears from two of the doctors who treated the wounded, turning the courtyard of BMA House into a field hospital

By Peter Blackburn 07.07.25

GPs plan to withdraw services

Following vote to take collective action owing to contract imposition, doctors set out next steps

By Jennifer Trueland 04.07.25

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

Locally-employed doctors ‘should be properly paid’

BMA to push for greater levels of membership among cohort

Ben Ireland 25.06.25

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