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A life-shortening inequality — how patients with learning disabilities are let down

Patients with learning disabilities die earlier, and are more likely to die from avoidable causes. Campaigners say there needs to be better training, more specialist staff and greater insight into their complex needs. Seren Boyd reports

By Seren Boyd 25.04.25

The Doctor podcast

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24.04.25

GPs eye alternative careers, finds survey

Army of doctors desperate for work forces many to rethink future, the BMA discovers

By Ben Ireland 22.04.25

BMA ‘considering next steps’ after ‘disappointing’ High Court ruling

Submission that GMC description of PAs and AAs as medical professionals is ‘irrational’ dismissed

By Ben Ireland 17.04.25

Specialty training squeeze

Doctors are fearing mass unemployment because the number of specialty training posts is woefully short. Ben Ireland hears calls for an urgent increase in places, and about the debate over prioritisation

By Ben Ireland 17.04.25

Students call to expand specialty training places

BMA medical students conference hears demands to protect mental health and tackle sexism

By Tim Tonkin 16.04.25

The long road to consensus

To be an effective voice for patients and doctors in the debate on assisted dying, the BMA had to reach points of consensus between doctors with opposing views. Seren Boyd hears how they got there

By Seren Boyd 14.04.25

BMA secures right to use evidence in PA challenge

High Court grants association permission to draw on documentation in judicial review against GMC

By Tim Tonkin 14.04.25