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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

Call to suspend recruitment of PA and AAs

‘Shocking testimony’ exposes administration of inappropriate procedures threatening patient safety

By Tim Tonkin 03.04.25

Special job, special people – now they need specialty status

Providing healthcare away from populated areas has long been a challenge for the NHS. However, an emerging specialty is beginning to go some way to addressing the issue while offering doctors the chance to provide continuity of care to patients. Jennifer Trueland reports

By Jennifer Trueland 01.04.25

Demand to boost general practice investment in Scotland

Lack of recruitment taking toll on health service, says BMA

By Jennifer Trueland 27.03.25

Never forget – COVID and its legacy

Five years on, doctors look back on when the pandemic hit the UK and remember the extraordinary camaraderie but also the stress and exhaustion that still hangs over the health service and many of its staff. Lessons must be learned, they say.

11.03.25

From all corners

The NHS is a 'completely different world', where the theory of medicine is the same but the practice totally different - the words of one of three international medical graduates who told Tim Tonkin about overcoming a range of challenges - career progression, baffling acronyms and, inevitably, the weather

By Tim Tonkin 07.03.25

Changing lanes

It's a daunting prospect to change specialty, especially when already established in a career. Neil Hallows hears from three doctors delighted to have made the switch.

By Neil Hallows 03.03.25

Putting patients first

Kim Daybell was an elite athlete who abruptly gave up his sporting ambitions to work full-time as a doctor when the COVID pandemic struck. Five years on, he weighs up his choice with Seren Boyd

By Seren Boyd 28.02.25