Doctors are warning that the loss of rural GP practices will put patients at risk after a North Yorkshire medical practice ...

The British Medical Association (BMA) is calling on NHS England to immediately pause the implementation of the International ...

A punitive culture surrounding the enforcement of ‘professionalism’ standards in UK medical schools is causing a chilling ...

The Government has been forced to change its approach to a landmark consultation, as it attempts to retain the General Medical Council (GMC)’s right to appeal decisions made by its own Medical ...

Food and Weight Management: Fixing the food environment, Professor David Strain, chair of the BMA board of science and Dr ...

However, this new research suggests that there are significant issues with how professionalism is defined and applied in medical schools. This UK-wide study draws on responses from 2,573 medical ...

We are now starting a new session and, on behalf of both Stephen Millar and myself, thank you for electing us back as respectively your deputy chair and chair of our retired members committee. The ...

Are you a private practice consultant or GP looking after patients with private medical insurance and/or self-pay patients? If so, please update your details. Why do patients opt for private ...

Medicine has become ‘taskified’. Complex decisions and processes about patient care are reduced to fragmented tasks, which ...

Responding to Yvette Cooper’s appointment as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, BMA council deputy chair Dr Emma Runswick said: “We welcome Yvette Cooper to the role of Health Secretary ...

Work experience in a caring or service role is now an essential step when getting into medical school. Medical schools will be looking for students who have gained a broad range of healthcare ...

Locally employed doctors (LEDs) are a cohort who have, traditionally, been placed on “local” contracts. They are engaged on a range of different titles (Trust Grade, Clinical Fellow, Trust Doctor etc) ...