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Trading places

There is Aberdeen and Bristol, Cardiff and Dundee – but don't forget Plovdiv. An increasing number of British medical students are choosing Bulgaria for their undergraduate study. Tim Tonkin finds out why

Life at Work By Tim Tonkin
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Call to increase GP and consultant job numbers

Doctors leaders endorse plans to require the BMA to lobby Government to raise number of post-CCT roles

Life at Work By Tim Tonkin
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Fighting for pay and jobs

Pay erosion isn’t the only issue affecting doctors in Northern Ireland – they face high unemployment, too, which has forced many to leave the country in search of better terms and conditions. Jennifer Trueland reports

Pay & Contracts Jennifer Trueland
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Protest in person

Doctors leaders went to Stormont to explain why they are leading their colleagues on a strike for the first time ever in Northern Ireland

Pay & Contracts By Jennifer Trueland
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Parity of training opportunity for refugee doctors

Call to offer priority of access to medical training for people fleeing conflict

Health & Society By Tim Tonkin
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Doctors at risk of ‘intellectual theft’ by robots

Call for legislation to ensure a halt to the unauthorised collection, distribution or commercial use of robotic surgical data

Health & Society Tim Tonkin
ARM 2026, Brighton Monday 22 June, speakers and motions

BMA calls for end to doctors’ exposure to hazardous chemicals

Every doctor has the right to a safe workplace, ARM 2026 hears

Health & Society By Ben Ireland

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