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The British Medical Association is the trade union and professional body for doctors in the UK. 
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BMA Giving applications open

The BMA Giving committee awards grants totalling £150,000 to healthcare charities whose research projects fall within the objectives of the BMA.
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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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COVID emergency helpline

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Contact us for emergency COVID advice 24 hours, 7 days a week. Call 0300 123 1233.
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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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For 24/7 emergency COVID advice please call us. For all other non-emergency enquiries normal opening times apply.
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The COVID-19 vaccination programme

Following an agreement between the BMA and NHSEI that GP practices will lead the vaccination programme, read our guidance on what the programme involves, what is expected of practices, funding and what you need to do now.

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News
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Deadly delays: mental health beds supply

Long waits for mental health beds have been linked to others being seriously harmed. Research by The Doctor finds much of the NHS lacks even the backstop plans required by law
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A watershed moment

Through the stress and upheaval of COVID-19, working and personal lives are being changed forever. London GP Alice Bell gives The Doctor her account of coping with a pandemic and what it means for her, her family and the world’s future
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Rotation pause prompts call for well-being awareness

A decision to pause the rotation of junior doctors in London is ‘understandable’ owing to extreme pressure on services but there must be an ‘increased awareness’ of the wellbeing of staff working on the front line.
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Events
Opting out - why breaking up is hard to do
The best in both worlds: why talented doctors make talented managers
Pension taxation and using scheme pays- 21 January
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BMA chair Chaand Nagpaul interviews with Sky News - 31 July 2020

BMA in the news

We regularly appear in the media as the collective voice of doctors and medical students. View our latest coverage