Steps to reduce child obesity are not enough, warns BMA

22 August 2017

Considerable progress is still needed if the ticking time bomb of childhood obesity is to be tackled successfully, the BMA has warned.

BMA Welsh council leaders elected

22 August 2017

The new chair and deputy chair of the BMA’s Welsh council have been announced.

Staff shortages threaten children’s health services

21 August 2017

Doctors’ leaders in Scotland have warned that workforce shortages are putting children’s health services under strain, and are calling for action to improve recruitment and retention.

Visiting the MHS: A look at health devolution in Manchester

Earlier this year, the BMA took a trip to Greater Manchester (GM) to see first-hand some of the developments that have been happening since funding was devolved in April 2016.

What's a 'normal' working day?

A ‘normal working day’; have you ever thought about what that means? As a trainee, I have a logbook of cases that I see in the emergency department or on the ward and then admit to intensive care and I try to record if they make it out of the unit alive.

The human cost of the 'health tourism' crackdown

Yet again, we are talking about the costs to the NHS of ‘health tourists’. It’s pretty clear to me that this argument is distracting from the larger debate about central funding.