Life at Work

Special job, special people – now they need specialty status

Providing healthcare away from populated areas has long been a challenge for the NHS. However, an emerging specialty is beginning to go some way to addressing the issue while offering doctors the chance to provide continuity of care to patients. Jennifer Trueland reports

By Jennifer Trueland 01.04.25

Demand to boost general practice investment

Lack of recruitment taking toll on health service, says BMA

By Jennifer Trueland 27.03.25

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

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

Changing lanes

It's a daunting prospect to change specialty, especially when already established in a career. Neil Hallows hears from three doctors delighted to have made the switch.

By Neil Hallows 03.03.25

Putting patients first

Kim Daybell was an elite athlete who abruptly gave up his sporting ambitions to work full-time as a doctor when the COVID pandemic struck. Five years on, he weighs up his choice with Seren Boyd

By Seren Boyd 28.02.25

Two thirds of ethnic minority doctors experience racism

BMA Scotland survey reveals 'harsh reality' of discrimination

By Jennifer Trueland 20.02.25

Pushed beyond the limit

Paul Miller was an 'excellent' doctor who died after pressures at work led him to feel 'trapped and overwhelmed'. Ben Ireland attended his inquest and heard from family members about an intelligent, kind and modest man

By Ben Ireland 18.02.25