Resident doctors will stage a full walk-out from 7am on 20 November until 7am on 21 November, while consultants and SAS ...

The need for a stronger primary care evidence base has become even more urgent as health systems shift towards prevention, community-based care, and greater use of digital technologies. Research must ...

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A BMA-backed declaration reaffirming medical neutrality has been adopted unanimously at the World Medical Association’s ...

The BMA has today written to Professor Gillian Leng, author of last year’s review into physician assistants and anaesthesia assistants, to reject proposed national clinical protocols that would allow ...

Responding to a survey from the GMC 1, which found that 23% of locally employed and 31% of SAS doctors said they had experienced or witnessed bullying and harassment in their role, BMA UK SAS ...

The BMA’s UK resident doctors committee (UKRDC) has today elected Dr Callum Parr as its new chair. Dr Parr is a resident doctor based in London, working as an internal medicine trainee.

PAs must not assess, diagnose or manage undifferentiated patients in any healthcare setting, and resident doctors must not be responsible for supervising them. W ...

There is considerable uncertainty surrounding the current and future use of Artificial Intelligence programmes in the delivery and monitoring of health care. This report sets out how AI is being used ...

This page is an overview of the main pressure points in the Scottish NHS. We also have analysis for NHS pressures in England, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. Note that available data is not always ...

Providing a good death at home is a vital part of general practice but it presents unique problems for the primary care team, especially out of hours, when access to the patient’s GP and regular ...