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Binning the beige buffet

Health service catering has tended to offer little in the way of either 'health' or 'service', but it's not all pie, chips and pop, as Ben Ireland discovered at a hospital determined to do better

Health & Society Doctors' Wellbeing By Ben Ireland
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BMA seeks deal with Government to tackle doctor unemployment as crisis looms

Fresh survey shows more than half of FY2 doctors have no job confirmed from next month

Pay & Contracts By Ben Ireland
Restrike

Keeping up the fight

Ben Ireland joins resident doctors on a picket line in Birmingham as they take industrial action for the twelfth time in the pay restoration campaign, the first strike under a Labour government

Pay & Contracts Ben Ireland
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PAs and AAs should be called ‘assistants’ and not see undifferentiated patients

Recommendations in Leng Review, which BMA calls ‘inadequate response’ to ‘patient safety scandal’

Life at Work Health & Society Ben Ireland
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Immigration rule reform will affect overseas doctors, says BMA

Letter to home secretary outlines critical role played by international medical graduates

Life at Work By Tim Tonkin

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Chips

Hello Mr Chips

Hospital food doesn’t have to be awful, apparently. How’s yours?

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