The committee meets four times a year to discuss the latest issues affecting the medical profession. Our meetings are open to all elected medical ethics representatives, but non-members can apply to ...

Leaders of the BMA resident doctors committee have advised that doctors have ‘spoken clearly’ after the results of a vote published today revealed that 90 per cent of resident doctors voting in favour ...

Resident doctors in England are urging the Health Secretary to immediately negotiate a new pay deal after voting ...

General practice across the UK is facing chronic underfunding and a drive to replace GPs with workforce trained to a lower standard. We have a UK wide crisis, and each nation faces the same challenges ...

BMA GP committee chair Dr Katie Bramall said: “Today’s announcement of a 3% rise for the Department of Health in the Government’s spending review defines the NHS budget until the next election – but ...

Resident doctors in England today began receiving their ballots for renewed industrial action after the Government failed to make an offer which would move them towards pay restoration. The ballot ...

Responding the announcement of new funding for "bricks and mortar" upgrades, Dr Katie Bramall-Stainer, chair of GPC England, said: "All new funding is welcome in the current parlous situation many GPs ...

Doctors’ leader, BMA Scotland chair, Dr Iain Kennedy today (Tuesday 31st December 2024), warns that without “transformative and urgent” reforms the NHS in Scotland will struggle to see out another New ...

Pay restoration The past year has been incredibly challenging, at the start of 2024 we had no choice but to take industrial action to reach a credible settlement for our hard work and I am proud to ...

BMA Northern Ireland met with the health minister today to discuss the pay award for 2024/25. In July 2024 the Doctors’ and Dentists’ Pay Review Body (DDRB) recommended an uplift of 6% for all doctors ...

Ila had earlier visited her UK mentor, a professor who happened to be Black, at a large institution in London. She mentioned they had entered a shop near her work, to buy something. Upon payment, the ...

Since last year’s celebrations, our own Clodagh Corrigan has been appointed as Disability Advocate for the Southern Health Trust. This is the first such role in Northern Ireland, and Clodagh herself ...