Tim Tonkin

Consultants and SAS doctors in England and Northern Ireland, and resident doctors in Northern Ireland, are voting on whether to seek industrial action over failures to restore their pay and value

Enactment of law on training places only part of the solution to jobs shortage 

Ballot threshold, notice period of industrial action and picket line attendees rules all change

Fear of repercussions and obstacles to calling in sick is forcing many doctors to go to work while feeling unwell, finds report

Medical Training (Prioritisation) Bill will seek to ensure UK medical graduates be prioritised for access to core and higher training places from 2026

Regulator claims NHS will struggle to fill holes in service if trend continues

BMA survey discovers assaults have become normalised in training establishment

Employees from ‘international backgrounds, or perceived as ethnically distinct from the majority population, are facing a sustained campaign of anti-migrant rhetoric’

Doctors at SRM raise concerns with mass digitisation set out in 10-year plan

BMA special representative meeting hears from deputy co-chair of medical students committee who fears for his future in work