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Read news stories, features and analysis below about the latest developments in healthcare from the award winning team of journalists at The Doctor magazine

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

Hello Mr Chips

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

By Neil Hallows 31.07.25

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

By Ben Ireland 31.07.25

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

By Ben Ireland 29.07.25

How I got my GP job

How does a long commute grab you? Disappointing pay? Or more likely, no job at all? Newly-qualified GP Ikenna Ogbu takes us on his route to employment

By Ikenna Ogbu 28.07.25

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

Ben Ireland 25.07.25

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’

Ben Ireland 16.07.25

One giant leap: the British doctor set to become the first astronaut with a disability

Having become a surgeon and Paralympic medallist following a serious accident, it's tempting to say the sky's the limit for John McFall ... but now he has been cleared to go into space. He tells Seren Boyd about the rigorous training, how his prosthetic leg got a space-age redesign and why we should all do something we love

By Seren Boyd 14.07.25

Immigration rule reform will affect overseas doctors, says BMA

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

By Tim Tonkin 11.07.25