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Resident doctors reach agreement on additional hours worked and safe working practices

By Liz Wells 01 April 2025

Resident doctors in England have agreed reforms to additional hours worked and safe working practices in NHS hospitals, bringing to an end a dispute with Government over lack of progress with this ...

BMA

BMA pay row escalates

By Liz Wells 20 March 2025

BMA staff have been protesting outside the union’s central London office, as a dispute about pay and recognition of service escalates.

BMA

Extent of unfilled doctors' shifts in London hospitals revealed

By Liz Wells 12 March 2025

More than 32,000 shifts that doctors in hospitals across London should have filled, were not staffed over six months in 2024, new research reveals.

GPS

New deal for GPs will 'fix' front door of NHS

By Liz Wells 28 February 2025

Government and GP representatives have agreed reforms to GP contracts for the first time in four years.

WORKFORCE

BMA urges Government to fix 'broken' student finance system

By Liz Wells 05 February 2025

The BMA is warning that insufficient government funding for medical students in England is pushing many into financial hardship.

RESIDENT DOCTORS

Resident doctors in England vote to go into dispute over conditions

By Liz Wells 31 January 2025

The BMA resident doctors committee has voted to go into dispute over conditions in the 2024 pay deal.

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GMB lodges formal dispute with the BMA

By Liz Wells 28 January 2025

GMB Union has lodged a formal dispute with the BMA in response to the treatment of some of the organisation's lowest paid employees.

PAY DEALS

Resident doctors in Northern Ireland accept pay offer

By Liz Wells 27 January 2025

Resident doctors in Northern Ireland have voted in favour of a pay offer from the Department of Health.

PREVENTION

Growing calls for England's drink-drive limit to be cut

By Liz Wells 23 January 2025

Calls to cut the drink-drive limit in England for the first time in 60 years are growing in strength.

GPS

GPs in Wales vote to reject the GMS contract offer

By Liz Wells 18 December 2024

GPs in Wales have voted overwhelmingly to reject the 24/25 General Medical Services (GMS) contract offered by the Welsh Government.

LONG COVID

Nursing staff and doctors with long Covid 'hung out to dry'

By Liz Wells 18 November 2024

Nursing staff and doctors with long Covid are still being denied access to vital financial support, two years after the government’s own scientific advisory body called for ministers to take action...