Government offers £190m to assist with meeting the demands of winter pressures and £100m for the expansion of medical ...

While the maximum London weighting payment for non-doctor, dentist or senior manager NHS staff has increased by 59 per cent ...

Patients getting stuck in ‘incredibly frustrating’ system, creating more work for GPs, who fear it is more about controlling numbers than addressing clinical need GPs have raised concerns about ...

‘No doctor should ever be afraid to stand up for what they believe in,’ ARM told ‘No doctor or medical student should ever be afraid to stand up for what they believe in,’ BMA members were told before ...

They've been called a second NHS: the millions of unpaid carers who not only sustain their loved ones but keep them out of hospital and residential care. But for too many there is a chronic lack of ...

The BMA medical ethics and human rights department is respected as a source of guidance for doctors but is less well known for its work in preventing damaging new laws and rulings from coming to pass.

The BMA is demanding MAPs (medical associate practitioners) are not used as a substitute for doctors in the NHS and is insisting on a pause in recruitment and deployment of PAs (physician associates).

Having a charity offering an alternative approach just a few yards from her GP practice has made a huge difference to Kath Jones' patients. Jennifer Trueland reports Around 40 paces from the health ...

Patients with learning disabilities die earlier, and are more likely to die from avoidable causes. Campaigners say there needs to be better training, more specialist staff and greater insight into ...

A new impetus to reduce suicide should include urgent improvements to workplace culture, as well as help with the cost of living. ‘It is the biggest risk we face – and the biggest concern for all of ...

Doctors have condemned the practice of employing doctors on local contracts with terms and pay that compare unfavourably with peers on BMA-approved contracts. Members of the association’s ...

An IT firm which provides services to the NHS has been fined £3m for failing to protect the data of nearly 80,000 patients following a cyberattack. The ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) today ...