‘Acting up’ refers to the act of performing the duties (e.g. clinical and managerial) of someone who belongs to a higher ...

Responding to the Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch's announcement to 'ban doctors from going on strike' ...

On 27 April 2020 the Government announced a life assurance scheme covering health and social care workers that sadly die as a result of COVID-19. Staff who are performing vital frontline NHS or social ...

In a statement, the joint national medical associations say hospitals have been repeatedly attacked and subjected to air ...

The PFC (professional fees committee) represents the BMA on all matters relating to non-NHS, non-contractual medical service work, such as local and central government work, medico-legal work, ...

Reflecting on your practice as a clinician is an area that you will continually develop throughout your career. Here you will find more about what reflective practice means and how you can learn more.

Importantly, SAS doctors can still sit the same exams and build personal portfolios to gain CESR accreditation and achieve ...

The BMA has called on the Government to ‘step up’, as resident doctors vote to back strike action over unemployment and ...

The ballot of first-year resident doctors (FY1s), which closed at midday today, saw 97% (or 3,950) of resident doctors voting for strike action on a turnout of 65%, providing them with a mandate for ...

Please join us at a local meeting to discuss the resident doctor contract. Meet members of the NIRDC and negotiations team and give them your views on what you would like to see in a new contract.

If members vote for the new contract offer, its implementation will be staged from August 2026. Doctors already in a ...

The current GP contract was introduced in 2004, and was a major shift in how funding was allocated to practices due to the use of a new formula for calculating the amount of funding per practice. The ...