Many locally-employed doctors (LEDs), currently on a range of unregulated and often fixed term contracts, will soon be able ...

Launched in May 2026, the SAS Eligibility and Permanency Framework (EFP) is a mechanism designed to enable experienced ...

Commenting on the latest General Medical Services statistics for Northern Ireland, BMA Northern Ireland GP chair Dr Frances O’Hagan said, “These latest figures confirm what GPs and patients already ...

“The BMA agrees on the need to combat abhorrent antisemitism and racism that patients and doctors face in the NHS. The NHS must be inclusive and patients should not fear disclosing their religious ...

With many of these doctors employed on insecure, short-term contracts, which lack the safeguards and clear career progression ...

The British Medical Association (BMA) has backed the Older People’s Commissioner for Wales’ call for an urgent action plan from the Welsh Government to end corridor care.

Job planning is a vital but often overlooked component of the day-to-day work of a GP. Job plans are covered in the model salaried contract therefore all salaried GPs should have one. They are the ...

Resident doctors in England have called four days of strike action next month after meetings with new health secretary James Murray. The BMA resident doctors committee said Mr Murray has ‘made it ...

In the forthcoming BMA session, the BMA GPs committee for England will ballot GPs in England on a ‘Plan B’, or an alternative ...

Following weeks of talks between the Government and the BMA, the new Health Secretary, James Murray, has made clear he will not increase the investment in the offer already rejected by resident ...

In March 2026, the government opened its consultation into reform of the General Medical Council (GMC) Order, setting out a number of changes to the medical regulator. The GMC needs fundamental reform ...

The National Health Service (Concerns, Complaints and Redress Arrangements) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 make significant amendments to the 2011 Putting Things Right Regulations, modernising ...