Welcome to the BMA

The British Medical Association is the trade union and professional body for doctors in the UK.
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GP practices are doing their best to meet patients' needs under huge pressure and inadequate funding. Please show your support and help spread the word.
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Interview skills week

8 - 12 November 2021
  • Make your interview stand out
  • Get advice specific to your career stage
  • Have your questions answered by experts
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ARM 2021

Hosted virtually from 13-14 September

Catch the highlights from this year's annual representative meeting - Build back together: supporting our members, supporting our NHS.
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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 Closed
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What the NHSEI package means for general practice

We believe the Government’s ‘rescue package’ for GPs is flawed and patient care will suffer as result. Read more in our analysis of the plan.

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News
42412 Lancashire-based GP Adam Janjua
Cornered: GPs under attack

GPs and their practice colleagues are facing abuse, threats and violence. They tell Tim Tonkin why the Government, rather than fuelling unrealistic patient expectations about a desperately under-funded system, needs to invest in primary care and be honest with the public
Latifa Patel
Your BMA: watch your wellbeing

What do you do when you’re on leave but the work emails keep mounting up? We need to protect ourselves and support each other to take proper breaks
Cheshire GP Tom Micklewright 42422
The future barges in: the digital revolution in general practice

COVID forced through digital changes in weeks that might have taken years to implement, while bureaucratic bogeymen were slain, at least for the duration of the pandemic. Is this the future, and is it the one that doctors want?
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Events
How to protect your personal finances
#ThinkAheadMed: BMA Northern Ireland fresher event
Building property in your investment portfolio
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Dealing with abuse of practice staff on social media from patients

Steps that GP practices can take against patients who leave abusive comments on social media or websites - including what to do first, reporting content to the provider, and criminal and civil actions.

Read our guidance