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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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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.

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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.
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The BMA can help you navigate and understand issues from annual allowance to pay scales to job planning.
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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.

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News
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Urgent action needed to make global vaccine equity a reality

The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on global health have been unprecedented, but they have not been felt equally.
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Demand to share surplus COVID vaccine equitably

The BMA is calling on the Government to boost efforts to ensure COVID-19 vaccines are distributed equitably across the globe, ahead of an international summit this week.
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Empowered to stand shoulder to shoulder

Junior doctors Lisa Rampersad and Cristina Costache look back on the experience of working during the 2016 contract dispute. Dr Rampersad describes how she feared involvement with industrial action might imperil her visa renewal, while Dr Costache echoes the feeling of vulnerability felt by many international medical graduates
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Events
Family finances made simple
The bare facts about pension tax in 30 minutes
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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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