Peter Blackburn

Doctors' leaders today launched a campaign to 'rebuild general practice' with GPs and services at 'breaking point'.

The BMA is supporting the legal case of a surgeon found to have been racially discriminated against by the GMC.

BMA council chair Chaand Nagpaul has expressed ‘deep concerns’ about the recently published report into race equality in the UK – and called for a meeting with the commission’s lead to address its flaws.

The chancellor has imposed an ‘unfair tax’ on doctors – and a BMA survey reveals many now plan to leave the NHS before their expected retirement.

Health and social care staff at the greatest risk of contracting COVID-19 must be vaccinated within the next two weeks, doctors leaders have demanded.

Doctors fear for the continuity and quality of care of thousands of vulnerable patients after cuts to funding and a series of failed procurement processes in Nottingham.

Thousands of doctors in England have told a BMA survey they have little or no confidence in the NHS being able to cope this winter.

Doctors at the BMA annual representative meeting voted overwhelmingly to call for a ‘full and frank review’ into the UK Government’s management of the COVID-19 crisis.

The Government has announced face coverings in England will be mandatory for people visiting shops – but only from 24 July.

Flaws in government planning, cuts to budgets, a lack of transparency, and, in England, a reliance on the private sector has battered doctors’ confidence in the test and trace system