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Your BMA: how your representatives work for you
In the first of a new series of columns, the BMA representative body chair and deputy pass on how they have been working for BMA members and how you can join the conversation and improve doctors’ working lives
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Are your parents at home?
Doctors wanting to move vulnerable relatives to the UK face almost insurmountable barriers despite being willing to fund their care. Some are left with no option but to leave the country. Tim Tonkin reports
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When the lights go out
A story of grief and simple kindness by Louise Wiseman, highly commended in the BMA writing competition
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The Doctor, issue 27, January 2021
Read all the features and news from the latest issue of The Doctor
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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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