The Doctor

Following the evidence

The chair of the health and social committee is planning to take on some of the thorniest issues facing the NHS, and has valuable personal experience to draw upon

Health & Society By Peter Blackburn

Warzone ready

Working in hostile environments requires exceptional skills and the need to make difficult, often heartbreaking decisions. Doctors have the chance to learn from some of the best in the business at the course run by the David Nott Foundation

Health & Society By Jennifer Trueland

Nott for the faint hearted

Surgeon David Nott has worked in some of the most dangerous places in the world. He tells Jennifer Trueland why he keeps going back, how he copes and how he is passing on his skills to others

Life at Work By Jennifer Trueland

GPs gain right to review NHS Resolution decisions

Ruling sets a vital precedent for independent contractors, such as dentists, says doctor

Life at Work By Tim Tonkin

Applications open to BMA Giving

Grants make it possible for charities to offer support for numerous causes from suicide prevention to helping doctors in war zones

Health & Society By Tim Tonkin

Here to help: refugee doctors

Doctors who desperately want to work, in a country that desperately needs doctors – but it’s far from simple for those leaving war-torn countries to practise in the UK. Jennifer Trueland meets two who are benefiting from a scheme to help their language skills, while Tim Tonkin hears about an initiative which offers continuing medical education

Life at Work By Jennifer Trueland and Tim Tonkin