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A hostile environment?

Doctors have come from across the world to work for the NHS – it is often said there would not be an NHS without them. But many international doctors have felt an increasing sense of threat, fuelled in part by the toxic debate over immigration. Peter Blackburn reports

Life at Work By Peter Blackburn

A hostile environment?

Doctors have come from across the world to work for the NHS – it is often said there would not be an NHS without them. But many international doctors have felt an increasing sense of threat, fuelled in part by the toxic debate over immigration. Peter Blackburn reports

By Peter Blackburn 03.10.25

Making exception reporting work

Exception reporting, the system resident doctors in England use to report additional working hours, has been stymied by bureaucratic and cultural barriers. But after a breakthrough in negotiations between the BMA and the Government, it may at last work as intended. Ben Ireland reports

By Ben Ireland 23.09.25

10-year plan lacks substance

Doctors mull the Government’s long-term strategy for the NHS at emergency meeting and find a dearth of detail as well as concerns with finance initiatives

By Tim Tonkin 14.09.25

Equality denied

People with disabilities have fewer rights in one part of the UK than they do in the others. For doctors, it means that basic things to keep them safe, like hand gel and fire doors, are literally out of their reach. By Jennifer Trueland

By Jennifer Trueland 15.08.25

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

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

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

‘Placeholder’ doctors face double whammy

Doctors without confirmed job locations also left out of on-call rotas

By Peter Blackburn 26.06.25