Responding to the Government’s call for evidence on protecting the title “nurse”, Dr Emma Runswick, deputy chair of BMA council, said: "Just as no one should be led to think they've seen a doctor when ...

Responding to new analysis from the Nuffield Trust, which found that 43% of over-80s waited more than 12 hours between ...

In response to Andy Burnham's announcements on social care in England made today, Dr Emma Runswick, deputy chair of BMA council, said: "Social care and the NHS are bound inextricably together. As the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Under the BMA’s salaried GP model contract, full time practitioners are entitled to 30 days annual leave each year. For less-than full time workers, the 30 days annual leave entitlement is on a ...

Changes to the QOF framework for 2026/27 were imposed by NHS England, following GPC England’s rejection of the contract offer for that year. NHS England has introduced additional improvement ...

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 ...