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Your BMA: here for you

Many of us are exhausted – but the BMA is here to help

Hopes restored: from Kabul to Dundee

When the Taliban banned women from higher education, female medical students in Afghanistan lost their futures overnight. But a group have made it to Scotland where, despite having to start all over again, they are determined to succeed

By Jennifer Trueland 21.10.24

You’re welcome

A ‘nurturing’ GP practice shows Seren Boyd how it seeks to reassure, gently challenge, and communicate sensitively with its patients in a bid to tackle deep-rooted health inequalities

By Seren Boyd 21.10.24

A voice for the dispossessed

Some of Andrea Williamson’s colleagues at medical school joked that she ought to become a social worker rather than a doctor. For the renowned GP, it is the social determinants of health that drive her work

By Peter Blackburn 17.10.24

The ordeal: doctors reflect on the COVID crisis

Bungled guidance, a ‘criminal’ lack of protection for staff, and patients ‘raining from the sky’. As a new phase of the COVID inquiry gets under way, three doctors describe their experience of the pandemic

By Ben Ireland 15.10.24

Resident doctors in Scotland offered 11% pay uplift

BMA recommends proposal dubbed 'half way' towards pay restoration

By Jennifer Trueland 11.10.24

In living memory

As a tree commemorating the lives of doctors who have died by suicide is planted as a living memorial at BMA House, the association calls for change in the fight for improving mental wellbeing in NHS

By Tim Tonkin 10.10.24

Right to care

Refugees and asylum seekers are often wrongly turned away from primary care because they lack proof of ID and address. Seren Boyd reports on a scheme which makes it easier for them to register

Seren Boyd 27.09.24