Articles

Jailed climate activist doctor given interim 12-month GMC suspension

Decision means potential further sanctions could be applied in full after release

Health & Society By Ben Ireland

Demand to boost general practice investment

Lack of recruitment taking toll on health service, says BMA

By Jennifer Trueland 27.03.25

Data-sharing dispute fears resurface

Conflict around refusal to allow access to patient information may reignite, warns GP

By Tim Tonkin 26.03.25

Jailed climate activist doctor given interim 12-month GMC suspension

Decision means potential further sanctions could be applied in full after release

By Ben Ireland 21.03.25

Medical students demand government ‘fix our funding’

Nine in 10 face financial pressures and 40 per cent consider dropping out or pause in study

By Ben Ireland 20.03.25

The Doctor podcast

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20.03.25

Never forget – COVID and its legacy

Five years on, doctors look back on when the pandemic hit the UK and remember the extraordinary camaraderie but also the stress and exhaustion that still hangs over the health service and many of its staff. Lessons must be learned, they say.

11.03.25

Five years on

As the UK commemorates the fifth anniversary of the start of the pandemic, former BMA council chair Chaand Nagpaul reflects on the need to learn lessons and to remember those lost

Chaand Nagpaul 10.03.25

From all corners

The NHS is a 'completely different world', where the theory of medicine is the same but the practice totally different - the words of one of three international medical graduates who told Tim Tonkin about overcoming a range of challenges - career progression, baffling acronyms and, inevitably, the weather

By Tim Tonkin 07.03.25