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December 18, 2019

Medical and nursing leaders in Northern Ireland call for restoration of Stormont

Senior health leaders representing doctors and nurses in Northern Ireland have issued a statement outlining serious concerns about the unacceptable situation in the health and social care system and are calling on politicians to get the devolved institutions up and running again.
February 5, 2019

BMA calls for sanitary product provision in hospitals

The BMA is calling for sanitary products to be made freely available across all hospitals in the UK as doctors say that it is essential to the health, dignity and wellbeing of inpatients.
January 11, 2019

Hundreds of hospital consultants intend to leave NHS well before retirement age

The NHS faces a future without hundreds of senior skilled hospital doctors, says the BMA.
December 6, 2018

GMC report 'a wake-up call over NHS workforce crisis'

Large groups of doctors want to reduce their hours or are considering leaving clinical practice altogether.
August 14, 2018

BMA responds to Dr Hadiza Bawa-Garba ruling

The BMA says action is urgently needed to properly resource the NHS and address the systemic pressures and constraints that doctors are working under, which compromise the delivery of high-quality, safe patient care.
August 8, 2018

Virgin has secured NHS funding that could have been spent on patients, says BMA

BMA says introduction of a competitive procurement framework has been, and will continue to be, detrimental to the health service.
June 25, 2018

Funding the NHS

The idea of introducing a charge for a visit to your GP or A&E is now frequently floated.
April 24, 2018

GP services risk collapse without proper investment, warns BMA

The BMA says most GP practices 'are operating on the edge of viability'.
April 10, 2018

BMA responds to case of GP trainee facing deportation

The BMA has called the government’s decision to deport a GP trainee because of a delay in his visa process “utterly incomprehensible”.
April 2, 2018

BMA analysis shows NHS England winter pressures extending right through summer

The NHS can expect to see performance this summer as poor as that seen in recent winters, as so-called 'winter pressures' extend right through the year, according to new analysis from the British Medical Association.