Life at Work

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

Immigration rule reform will affect overseas doctors, says BMA

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

Life at Work By Tim Tonkin

PAs and AAs should be called ‘assistants’ and not see undifferentiated patients

Recommendations in Leng Review, which BMA calls ‘inadequate response’ to ‘patient safety scandal’

Ben Ireland 16.07.25

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

‘Placeholder’ doctors face double whammy

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

By Peter Blackburn 26.06.25

‘Worsening crisis’ in emergency departments

Consultant paints stark picture of daily working life

Peter Blackburn 25.06.25

Call for ‘stable’ supply of medical professionals

Government plan to double medical school numbers questioned

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

GPs describe work as ‘unmanageable’

BMA survey shows devastating effect of years of underinvestment in general practice in Scotland

By Jennifer Trueland 16.06.25

Doctors deserve ‘better employers’ to improve working conditions, says health secretary

Wes Streeting calls for NHS leaders to do more to make daily life easier for staff

By Ben Ireland 12.06.25