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A landmark case for whistleblowers in the NHS.
With BMA support, a former NHS chief executive has been awarded £1.4m for unfair dismissal, reinforcing the need to protect those who speak up for patient safety. bbc.co.uk/news/article...
With BMA support, a former NHS chief executive has been awarded £1.4m for unfair dismissal, reinforcing the need to protect those who speak up for patient safety. bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Letby trust pays £1.4m damages to ex CEO
Dr Susan Gilby told the BBC she was relieved the case was over and that it
bbc.co.uk
January 16, 2026 at 8:07 AM
A landmark case for whistleblowers in the NHS.
With BMA support, a former NHS chief executive has been awarded £1.4m for unfair dismissal, reinforcing the need to protect those who speak up for patient safety. bbc.co.uk/news/article...
With BMA support, a former NHS chief executive has been awarded £1.4m for unfair dismissal, reinforcing the need to protect those who speak up for patient safety. bbc.co.uk/news/article...
While patient demand for GP appointments is rising, an increasing number of GPs are struggling to find work.
Doctors and patients need to see an urgent solution to this.
Watch Dr Amy Small explain more 👇
Doctors and patients need to see an urgent solution to this.
Watch Dr Amy Small explain more 👇
January 15, 2026 at 4:39 PM
While patient demand for GP appointments is rising, an increasing number of GPs are struggling to find work.
Doctors and patients need to see an urgent solution to this.
Watch Dr Amy Small explain more 👇
Doctors and patients need to see an urgent solution to this.
Watch Dr Amy Small explain more 👇
What happened to FY3 locums?
Rate cuts and a dearth of shifts have left resident doctors with few choices amid an under-employment crisis.
The Doctor Magazine hears from those who say trust cost-cutting has become unsafe 👇 [1/5] thedoctor.bma.org.uk/articles/pay...
Rate cuts and a dearth of shifts have left resident doctors with few choices amid an under-employment crisis.
The Doctor Magazine hears from those who say trust cost-cutting has become unsafe 👇 [1/5] thedoctor.bma.org.uk/articles/pay...
What happened to FY3 locums?
Rate cuts and a dearth of locum shifts have left resident doctors with few choices amid an under-employment crisis. Ben Ireland hears from those who say trust cost-cutting has become unsafe
thedoctor.bma.org.uk
January 15, 2026 at 3:54 PM
What happened to FY3 locums?
Rate cuts and a dearth of shifts have left resident doctors with few choices amid an under-employment crisis.
The Doctor Magazine hears from those who say trust cost-cutting has become unsafe 👇 [1/5] thedoctor.bma.org.uk/articles/pay...
Rate cuts and a dearth of shifts have left resident doctors with few choices amid an under-employment crisis.
The Doctor Magazine hears from those who say trust cost-cutting has become unsafe 👇 [1/5] thedoctor.bma.org.uk/articles/pay...
📢 Resident doctors in England!
✅Vote YES in the ballot to keep the pressure on the Government in 2026.
✅ Vote YES for more jobs and better pay for resident doctors.
Make sure you have your ballot in the post by 26 January.
✅Vote YES in the ballot to keep the pressure on the Government in 2026.
✅ Vote YES for more jobs and better pay for resident doctors.
Make sure you have your ballot in the post by 26 January.
January 14, 2026 at 2:36 PM
📢 Resident doctors in England!
✅Vote YES in the ballot to keep the pressure on the Government in 2026.
✅ Vote YES for more jobs and better pay for resident doctors.
Make sure you have your ballot in the post by 26 January.
✅Vote YES in the ballot to keep the pressure on the Government in 2026.
✅ Vote YES for more jobs and better pay for resident doctors.
Make sure you have your ballot in the post by 26 January.
UK medical graduates are to be given priority access to specialty training jobs in the NHS.
The proposals are a first step to resolving a much larger challenge but it's not enough to tackle the scale of the crisis of spiralling competition ratios, leading to many doctors facing unemployment.
The proposals are a first step to resolving a much larger challenge but it's not enough to tackle the scale of the crisis of spiralling competition ratios, leading to many doctors facing unemployment.
January 14, 2026 at 12:10 PM
UK medical graduates are to be given priority access to specialty training jobs in the NHS.
The proposals are a first step to resolving a much larger challenge but it's not enough to tackle the scale of the crisis of spiralling competition ratios, leading to many doctors facing unemployment.
The proposals are a first step to resolving a much larger challenge but it's not enough to tackle the scale of the crisis of spiralling competition ratios, leading to many doctors facing unemployment.
Yesterday the Government announced UK medical graduates will be prioritised for NHS jobs in new legislation, which is a step forward in tackling the doctors’ jobs crisis.
But this alone won’t fix it.
Find out more bma.org.uk/ukgradpriori...
But this alone won’t fix it.
Find out more bma.org.uk/ukgradpriori...
January 14, 2026 at 10:24 AM
Yesterday the Government announced UK medical graduates will be prioritised for NHS jobs in new legislation, which is a step forward in tackling the doctors’ jobs crisis.
But this alone won’t fix it.
Find out more bma.org.uk/ukgradpriori...
But this alone won’t fix it.
Find out more bma.org.uk/ukgradpriori...
Applications to BMA Giving are now open.
Grants from BMA Giving allow charities to offer support for numerous causes, including suicide prevention, supporting refugee doctors return to practice and helping doctors in warzones.
www.bma.org.uk/news-and-opi...
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Grants from BMA Giving allow charities to offer support for numerous causes, including suicide prevention, supporting refugee doctors return to practice and helping doctors in warzones.
www.bma.org.uk/news-and-opi...
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BMA Giving open to applications
Funding is used to provide a range of help and advice to doctors in financial need and assist some back into work
www.bma.org.uk
January 13, 2026 at 11:30 AM
Applications to BMA Giving are now open.
Grants from BMA Giving allow charities to offer support for numerous causes, including suicide prevention, supporting refugee doctors return to practice and helping doctors in warzones.
www.bma.org.uk/news-and-opi...
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Grants from BMA Giving allow charities to offer support for numerous causes, including suicide prevention, supporting refugee doctors return to practice and helping doctors in warzones.
www.bma.org.uk/news-and-opi...
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Do you want to be a voice that helps shape the future of the medical profession and support your colleagues?
There are 69 voting seats available on the BMA UK Council (2026–2029), including dedicated seats for ethnic minority members.
There are 69 voting seats available on the BMA UK Council (2026–2029), including dedicated seats for ethnic minority members.
January 12, 2026 at 5:19 PM
Do you want to be a voice that helps shape the future of the medical profession and support your colleagues?
There are 69 voting seats available on the BMA UK Council (2026–2029), including dedicated seats for ethnic minority members.
There are 69 voting seats available on the BMA UK Council (2026–2029), including dedicated seats for ethnic minority members.
The rise in the number of violent incidents by patients towards NHS staff will come as no surprise to our members.
We need to do more to tackle the causes, including the staffing and funding crisis in the NHS, as well as addressing the rising levels of race-based abuse and sexual assaults.
We need to do more to tackle the causes, including the staffing and funding crisis in the NHS, as well as addressing the rising levels of race-based abuse and sexual assaults.
January 12, 2026 at 3:42 PM
The rise in the number of violent incidents by patients towards NHS staff will come as no surprise to our members.
We need to do more to tackle the causes, including the staffing and funding crisis in the NHS, as well as addressing the rising levels of race-based abuse and sexual assaults.
We need to do more to tackle the causes, including the staffing and funding crisis in the NHS, as well as addressing the rising levels of race-based abuse and sexual assaults.
As doctors, we see the health impacts of climate change at first hand. Yet we often face barriers to getting involved with sustainability, as a recent BMA survey shows.
BMA president Dr John Chisholm has written about the changes staff need to see: ukhealthalliance.org/news-item/ca...
BMA president Dr John Chisholm has written about the changes staff need to see: ukhealthalliance.org/news-item/ca...
Can doctors really influence the NHS carbon footprint? - UK Health Alliance on Climate Change
In this guest blog, BMA President John Chisholm reflects on the results of a survey of BMA members regarding their views on sustainability in the NHS
ukhealthalliance.org
January 12, 2026 at 2:22 PM
As doctors, we see the health impacts of climate change at first hand. Yet we often face barriers to getting involved with sustainability, as a recent BMA survey shows.
BMA president Dr John Chisholm has written about the changes staff need to see: ukhealthalliance.org/news-item/ca...
BMA president Dr John Chisholm has written about the changes staff need to see: ukhealthalliance.org/news-item/ca...
"The general scarcity of doctors is incomprehensible"
Former mayor of Brighton and Hove, Bill Randall, writes about his recent A&E experience, where he saw 'the NHS at its very best' but noticed some of the key issues highlighted by BMA members👇
www.brightonandhovenews.org/2026/01/09/n...
Former mayor of Brighton and Hove, Bill Randall, writes about his recent A&E experience, where he saw 'the NHS at its very best' but noticed some of the key issues highlighted by BMA members👇
www.brightonandhovenews.org/2026/01/09/n...
New Year’s Eve in A&E begs some questions
Bruised and bloody, the man in the wheelchair waited patiently on New Year’s Eve while the concerned desk staff at
www.brightonandhovenews.org
January 10, 2026 at 3:21 PM
"The general scarcity of doctors is incomprehensible"
Former mayor of Brighton and Hove, Bill Randall, writes about his recent A&E experience, where he saw 'the NHS at its very best' but noticed some of the key issues highlighted by BMA members👇
www.brightonandhovenews.org/2026/01/09/n...
Former mayor of Brighton and Hove, Bill Randall, writes about his recent A&E experience, where he saw 'the NHS at its very best' but noticed some of the key issues highlighted by BMA members👇
www.brightonandhovenews.org/2026/01/09/n...
The mental health of young people is worsening, placing increasing demand on both the NHS and schools.
#TheDrMagazine reports on how support services can't meet this rocketing demand.
🔗 thedoctor.bma.org.uk/articles/hea...
#TheDrMagazine reports on how support services can't meet this rocketing demand.
🔗 thedoctor.bma.org.uk/articles/hea...
![“Children and young people are having to reach an absolute crisis to meet thresholds for [mental health] services because waiting lists are so long… Too often there’s a sense that children need to be actively trying to end their life in order to be properly supported.”
John James Alexander Moore
Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:46ieymyomewdswfjjvvoxexq/bafkreicte2c6nm7vnu7bd6oegd5qlsb2bpf4ad5htphpqvv6lbr3btl2li@jpeg)
January 9, 2026 at 1:11 PM
The mental health of young people is worsening, placing increasing demand on both the NHS and schools.
#TheDrMagazine reports on how support services can't meet this rocketing demand.
🔗 thedoctor.bma.org.uk/articles/hea...
#TheDrMagazine reports on how support services can't meet this rocketing demand.
🔗 thedoctor.bma.org.uk/articles/hea...
Undignified and unsafe 'corridor care' is now normalised in emergency departments around the country.
To end the Government must invest in staff, beds, and buildings across the whole system.
Read our full response to the new report: www.bma.org.uk/bma-media-ce...
To end the Government must invest in staff, beds, and buildings across the whole system.
Read our full response to the new report: www.bma.org.uk/bma-media-ce...
🆕 REPORT
➡️ Patient care in temporary care environments
📖 Read the report: buff.ly/w8KKiUP
#PatientSafety #NHS #Healthcare #CorridorCare
➡️ Patient care in temporary care environments
📖 Read the report: buff.ly/w8KKiUP
#PatientSafety #NHS #Healthcare #CorridorCare
January 8, 2026 at 11:39 AM
Undignified and unsafe 'corridor care' is now normalised in emergency departments around the country.
To end the Government must invest in staff, beds, and buildings across the whole system.
Read our full response to the new report: www.bma.org.uk/bma-media-ce...
To end the Government must invest in staff, beds, and buildings across the whole system.
Read our full response to the new report: www.bma.org.uk/bma-media-ce...
The Government's Road Safety Strategy, announced today, is a welcome step towards improving public health. Any amount of alcohol impairs judgement and reaction times, and even modest reductions in blood alcohol limits have been shown to significantly reduce harm.
January 7, 2026 at 2:58 PM
The Government's Road Safety Strategy, announced today, is a welcome step towards improving public health. Any amount of alcohol impairs judgement and reaction times, and even modest reductions in blood alcohol limits have been shown to significantly reduce harm.
Resident doctors, we need your 'YES' vote to keep the pressure on the Government in 2026 to get you more jobs and better pay.
Tens of thousands of doctors are facing unemployment and real pay is down 21% since 2008.
Get your ballot back in the post by 26 January to make sure your voice is heard.
Tens of thousands of doctors are facing unemployment and real pay is down 21% since 2008.
Get your ballot back in the post by 26 January to make sure your voice is heard.
January 6, 2026 at 4:24 PM
Resident doctors, we need your 'YES' vote to keep the pressure on the Government in 2026 to get you more jobs and better pay.
Tens of thousands of doctors are facing unemployment and real pay is down 21% since 2008.
Get your ballot back in the post by 26 January to make sure your voice is heard.
Tens of thousands of doctors are facing unemployment and real pay is down 21% since 2008.
Get your ballot back in the post by 26 January to make sure your voice is heard.
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Substitution of expertise with enthusiasm doesn’t work when so much of what our NHS clinical staff do is based on years of training, exams and experience. @bma.org.uk agrees with @rcn.org.uk that we shouldn’t be replacing expert clinicians the way the NHS is currently rushing to do.
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: English hospitals that cut registered nurses saw more deaths while those hiring nurses saw more patients survive. Even when hospitals tried to fill gaps with non-nurses, deaths still went up. Major new study exposes dangerous NHS variation:
www.thetimes.com/article/7eed...
www.thetimes.com/article/7eed...
Death rates rise when NHS cuts back on nursing
Using lower-paid workers to plug the gaps left by a failure to hire registered nurses damages safety, new research has shown
www.thetimes.com
December 21, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Substitution of expertise with enthusiasm doesn’t work when so much of what our NHS clinical staff do is based on years of training, exams and experience. @bma.org.uk agrees with @rcn.org.uk that we shouldn’t be replacing expert clinicians the way the NHS is currently rushing to do.
For the past five days, tens of thousands of resident doctors in England took strike action over jobs and pay, yet it didn’t need to happen.
Our members showed their collective strength and are demanding a credible new offer from the Government.
Our members showed their collective strength and are demanding a credible new offer from the Government.
December 22, 2025 at 11:09 AM
For the past five days, tens of thousands of resident doctors in England took strike action over jobs and pay, yet it didn’t need to happen.
Our members showed their collective strength and are demanding a credible new offer from the Government.
Our members showed their collective strength and are demanding a credible new offer from the Government.
Patients need doctors. Doctors need jobs.
We're on strike because there were no new jobs in the government’s offer last week, they simply repurposed jobs that already existed for the sake of ‘new’ jobs on paper.
We need the Government to create more training places for resident doctors.
We're on strike because there were no new jobs in the government’s offer last week, they simply repurposed jobs that already existed for the sake of ‘new’ jobs on paper.
We need the Government to create more training places for resident doctors.
December 19, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Patients need doctors. Doctors need jobs.
We're on strike because there were no new jobs in the government’s offer last week, they simply repurposed jobs that already existed for the sake of ‘new’ jobs on paper.
We need the Government to create more training places for resident doctors.
We're on strike because there were no new jobs in the government’s offer last week, they simply repurposed jobs that already existed for the sake of ‘new’ jobs on paper.
We need the Government to create more training places for resident doctors.
We wrote to David Lammy and Wes Streeting on Tuesday to express concern over access to healthcare for prisoners on hunger strike.
After reports of delayed admission to hospital for a prisoner, we remain concerned for the welfare of the remaining hunger strikers. (1/2)
After reports of delayed admission to hospital for a prisoner, we remain concerned for the welfare of the remaining hunger strikers. (1/2)
December 19, 2025 at 10:49 AM
We wrote to David Lammy and Wes Streeting on Tuesday to express concern over access to healthcare for prisoners on hunger strike.
After reports of delayed admission to hospital for a prisoner, we remain concerned for the welfare of the remaining hunger strikers. (1/2)
After reports of delayed admission to hospital for a prisoner, we remain concerned for the welfare of the remaining hunger strikers. (1/2)
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Well done @bmacymru.bsky.social on the new resident doctors' contract! Meanwhile in England residents fight on in their campaign and at the same time @bma.org.uk continues work on all the other issues our members care about. This is what an active, member-led union with amazing staff looks like!
December 18, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Well done @bmacymru.bsky.social on the new resident doctors' contract! Meanwhile in England residents fight on in their campaign and at the same time @bma.org.uk continues work on all the other issues our members care about. This is what an active, member-led union with amazing staff looks like!
🚨Calling all resident doctors in England🚨
It's time to vote YES in our re-ballot for jobs and pay.
Vote and post today! Don't delay.
Find out more👉 bma.org.uk/rdballot
It's time to vote YES in our re-ballot for jobs and pay.
Vote and post today! Don't delay.
Find out more👉 bma.org.uk/rdballot
December 18, 2025 at 2:26 PM
🚨Calling all resident doctors in England🚨
It's time to vote YES in our re-ballot for jobs and pay.
Vote and post today! Don't delay.
Find out more👉 bma.org.uk/rdballot
It's time to vote YES in our re-ballot for jobs and pay.
Vote and post today! Don't delay.
Find out more👉 bma.org.uk/rdballot
Across the country resident doctors were out on the picket lines showing their collective strength.
These strikes didn’t have to happen, Wes Streeting
could have listened to doctors and come forward with workable, sustainable solutions for both jobs and pay.
These strikes didn’t have to happen, Wes Streeting
could have listened to doctors and come forward with workable, sustainable solutions for both jobs and pay.
December 17, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Across the country resident doctors were out on the picket lines showing their collective strength.
These strikes didn’t have to happen, Wes Streeting
could have listened to doctors and come forward with workable, sustainable solutions for both jobs and pay.
These strikes didn’t have to happen, Wes Streeting
could have listened to doctors and come forward with workable, sustainable solutions for both jobs and pay.
"The GMC received more applications last year to leave our NHS than in the last decade" Dr Callum Parr tells Sky News.
Some resident doctors are facing unemployment and others are leaving the country entirely. Short-term thinking won’t cut it.
Some resident doctors are facing unemployment and others are leaving the country entirely. Short-term thinking won’t cut it.
December 17, 2025 at 12:12 PM
"The GMC received more applications last year to leave our NHS than in the last decade" Dr Callum Parr tells Sky News.
Some resident doctors are facing unemployment and others are leaving the country entirely. Short-term thinking won’t cut it.
Some resident doctors are facing unemployment and others are leaving the country entirely. Short-term thinking won’t cut it.
Our Emma Runswick on BBC Breakfast this morning about today’s resident doctors’ strike over jobs and pay.
Thousands of resident doctors face unemployment, with many more leaving the UK altogether.
Thousands of resident doctors face unemployment, with many more leaving the UK altogether.
December 17, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Our Emma Runswick on BBC Breakfast this morning about today’s resident doctors’ strike over jobs and pay.
Thousands of resident doctors face unemployment, with many more leaving the UK altogether.
Thousands of resident doctors face unemployment, with many more leaving the UK altogether.