Welcome to the BMA

The British Medical Association is the trade union and professional body for doctors in the UK.
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Join and pay no fee until October

Being a BMA member is the only way to guarantee you get fair treatment from your employer if an issue arises – fair pay, fair working hours, fair leave.

Join today and pay no membership fee until 1 October 2021.
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SAS new contract

Members in England, Northern Ireland and Wales have voted in favour of the new SAS contracts packages in our recent referendum.
Read about the new SAS contracts
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Risk assessment tool

The BMA has endorsed a simple risk stratification tool to help facilitate your work-based risk assessment. The tool uses a scoring mechanism to help you quantify your biological risk to COVID.
Access the tool
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Top categories
The BMA can help you navigate and understand issues from annual allowance to pay scales to job planning.
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Call - 0300 123 1233 Email - [email protected] Webchat - talk to an adviser
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Saturday 9am - 5pm
Sunday Temporarily suspended
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A 3% pay rise does not go far enough

We are extremely disappointed that the Government has not gone far enough in recognising the efforts made by frontline staff in the last 18 months.

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News
Duty of candour law would not ensure safer care

The proposed legislation in Northern Ireland would not solve the problem, when what we need is government investment and staff support
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Government’s 3% ‘offer’ is nothing but another real-terms pay cut for consultants in England

This week’s pay announcement does little to claw back what we’ve lost, writes BMA consultants committee chair Vishal Sharma
Excluding junior doctors from the pay uplift is an extraordinary insult

Far from recognising our sacrifices and contributions in the pandemic, the Government has chosen to penalise junior doctors, explains BMA junior doctors committee chair Sarah Hallett
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Events
Career planning - live webinar
GP and practice manager training sessions - disciplinary and grievances
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Medical CVs and application forms - live webinar
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Access free face-to-face counselling services

You can access one-off support or, after triage, a structured course of up to six face-to-face counselling sessions. There is always someone you can talk to.

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