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Doctors have a duty to raise concerns about patient safety. Read our advice on why, when and how to raise a concern.
A free, comprehensive, independent service advice on a range of employment-related issues excusively for BMA members. Find out more.
Job plans are annual agreements between the employer and the doctor so it is important you understand how best to prepare for your job plan review.
This brief guidance clarifies the clinical, legal and professional responsibilities of those who carry out medical procedures and those who are asked to seek consent for them.
This toolkit aims to prepare humanitarian health professionals for the problems they might face while working in conflicts and emergencies.
Our quick reference guide for doctors in England points to more detailed guidance from the Department of Health and other sources.
Read our guidance on how to identify and properly manage relevant conflicts of interest.
Female genital mutilation is considered a form of child abuse and is a criminal offence in the UK. Our guidance looks at doctors' role in preventing and eradicating the practice.
The legal and ethical position where adults who are subject to abuse may not want confidential information disclosed.
Social media can be a great resource for doctors. Read the BMA's practical and ethical guidance to help you use it safely and effectively.
Recent investment into general practice has created a number of funding streams for GPs. Use our guide to identify which is right for you.
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Whatever your career stage, we can help you along with the BMJ and the BMA Library. Visit our Career advice and support section.
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This one- hour free webinar is designed to help you to think about how you negotiate in clinical situations and highlight new approaches that you can use and embed into your work setting.
Whether you're staying close by or thinking about further afield, this guidance will help you get started on the steps you need to take to work abroad.
Ensure that your employer recognises your value and understands the principles of your role.
We're here to help you get your CV in top shape, no matter what stage you are in your career.
All the information you need to successfully complete your CESR application as a SAS doctor.
To continue your training after medical school you must apply for the foundation programme. The application period is only open for two weeks a year - use our guide to get key dates and information plus tips for your application.
Flexible working and less than full time training (LTFT) is becoming more commonplace - read our step by step guide and see if LTFT is right for you.
Making the step from medical school to being an F1 doctor is both daunting and exciting - get everything you need to know for your first year on the foundation programme.
Interested in pursuing your academic studies? Find out more about your options for combining training with academic study in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
Good communication skills are an essential component of the doctor-patient relationship. Find out about courses, events and resources available to help you in this area.
Get help with balancing the stresses of work and demands on your life. Visit our Work-life support section.
Let us support you in your professional and personal life with our range of services dedicated to helping make your life easier.
Check out our range of learning opportunities to grow your career and build your confidence in the workplace, including advice for overseas doctors who are thinking about working in the UK.
Find out how the NHS works in the UK with information about the NHS in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
The BMA Refugee Doctor Initiative is a special package of free benefits available to refugee and asylum seeking doctors seeking to establish their careers in the UK. Find out more.
A new start in a new country can be a challenge. Whether you are working as a trainee or a doctor, we have guidance to support the transition to living and working in the UK.
Lloyd & Whyte offer both personal and commercial insurance packages to support you throughout your personal and working life as a doctor.
As a busy doctor, keeping ahead of the latest tax developments and dealing with tax matters can be time-consuming and challenging. Our tax experts Ernst and Young can help.
Reasonable adjustments are adaptations to assist students and doctors with disabilities. Find out more.
Our confidential counselling service is available free of charge, 24/7. Talk to a counsellor or another doctor in confidence.
Whether you're thinking of having a baby, already expecting or going back to work as a parent, read our advice on contracts, leave options and pay.
Problems can take hold of us at anytime, and can often feel difficult to manage on our own. We have a range of services to support and advise you through difficult times and coping with stress.
'Caring, supportive, collaborative: a future vision for the NHS' is a project which aims to be an honest conversation with our profession about the sort of NHS doctors want to work in. Find out more.
Get the latest on STPs (sustainability and transformation plans) and find out how they affect you at a local level. Look at our analysis on funding, read our FAQs on how to get more involved, and check the deficit map.
Accountable Care Organisations (ACOs) are population based models of care evolving from the NHS England Five Year Forward View plans. Find out more.
Across the UK, there are moves to shift services out of hospitals and provide them in community settings. Find out how it may affect local service provision.
These new care models for the NHS in England aim to break down traditional divides between primary, secondary and community care, mental health and possibly social care.
With annual increases in demand for care, the NHS in England is under a growing amount of pressure and is struggling to meet targets. The BMA is undertaking regular analysis to provide an overview of how the health service is coping.
See highlights from previous LMC Conferences, as well as upcoming conference dates and information.
The latest news, guidance and current issues for general practice from the general practitioners committee (GPC).
BMA analysis reveals key NHS performance indicators are projected to deteriorate over the next three years.
We keep track of doctors' workload and wellbeing with the BMA quarterly survey of about 3,000 doctors from across the profession.
Pressures on NHS hospital beds are well documented. Data on how beds are used within the NHS can provide insight into the healthcare system. This paper presents NHS bed data from across the UK in one place.
Since the start of 2017, there has been widespread media coverage surrounding the unusually severe pressure on NHS hospital and GP services, what has caused this ‘ winter crisis’ and what can be done to alleviate the strain on health and social care services.
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14 December 2018
The BMA and Royal College of Physicians have drawn up timely guidance on clinically assisted nutrition and hydration
Doctors leaders in Scotland have warned there is still a ‘massive distance to travel’ to make real inroads into cutting the health inequality gap.
13 December 2018
The BMA has warned that additional cash promised to the Scottish health service will not be enough to deal with current and future pressures.
Cybersecurity got the attention of doctors last year as the WannaCry attacks shut down computers with messages demanding ransom payments.
If there is one phrase in the description of a new intervention, initiative or ‘tool’ that makes my heart sink, it is ‘can be completed in only X minutes’. Do the people who come up with this stuff ever stop to picture how it will work in practice?
The NHS staff who are delivering the services feel neither consulted nor valued. Low morale continues. Bullying and harassment is at record levels.
18 January 2019 York
planning for retirement
19 January 2019 Lecture Theatre 1 (LT1) Queens University Belfast Medical Biology Centre, 97 Lisburn Road, Belfast, BT7 9BL
26 - 27 January 2019 Brighton
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