Pay & Contracts

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

Senior doctors indicate willingness to strike

Ballot finds consultant and SAS doctors prepared to take industrial action in struggle for pay restoration

Tim Tonkin 04.09.25

BMA seeks deal with Government to tackle doctor unemployment as crisis looms

Fresh survey shows more than half of FY2 doctors have no job confirmed from next month

By Ben Ireland 29.07.25

Keeping up the fight

Ben Ireland joins resident doctors on a picket line in Birmingham as they take industrial action for the twelfth time in the pay restoration campaign, the first strike under a Labour government

Ben Ireland 25.07.25

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

Locally-employed doctors ‘should be properly paid’

BMA to push for greater levels of membership among cohort

Ben Ireland 25.06.25

BMA secures strike doctors a rebate

Excessive pay deductions imposed in Northern Ireland after resident doctor strike in March

By Jennifer Trueland 04.06.25

Attracted to other shores

Many final- and penultimate-year students in Northern Ireland are considering starting their careers elsewhere, a survey shows. Jennifer Trueland talks to them about their disillusionment with the healthcare system and their motivation for leaving their country behind

By Jennifer Trueland 21.05.25

GPs furious with GMS contract imposition

Health minister claims cupboard is bare at end of pay negotiations

By Jennifer Trueland 20.05.25