Restrictive rules on immigration are preventing thousands of overseas doctors from bringing adult family members to the UK, even when their relatives are elderly or infirm. Tim Tonkin hears how this policy is impacting doctors and, potentially, the NHS [1/8]

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In Scotland, 100 Deep End GP Scotland surgeries are based in the most deprived communities. The project calls for more resources in a bid to redress the Inverse Care Law. In the second of a two-part series, Peter Blackburn reports from the front line of the Deep End, shadowing David Blane

In her latest column for The Doctor, Dr Latifa reflects on how her role as The BMA RB chair has become increasingly challenging as views have become more polarised.

Read her blog here:
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Our jam-packed April edition has a broad range of features - from a look at restrictive visa rules and the latest The BMA industrial action to a GP's innovative bid to keep their practice going and an interview with a TV medical adviser.

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A year or so ago, Peter Blackburn and I started looking in depth at the mental healthcare crisis.

We've produced a lot of work on the topic, but nothing has put it into such stark a context as attending the inquest into the death of this young woman.

Read Evie’s story here:

'The medical profession has raised significant safety concerns.'

The BMA has written to NHS England chief executive Amanda Pritchard requesting a pause to any further expansion of MAP roles across the NHS while concerns persist.

On-call designated parking spaces, self-directed learning time, the right to WFH on portfolios, rest facilities at all hospitals and 24/7 food options.

These 5 priorities are part of a new Junior Doctors wellbeing campaign designed to empower members to act locally. More👇

Undervalued and underpaid.

As a GMC survey reveals that thousands of doctors could be considering leaving the UK, BMA RB chair Dr Latifa warns that the findings place further pressure on ministers to end pay disputes with the medical profession.

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This week, The BMA deputy chair of council Emma Runswick 🏳️‍🌈 appeared on BBC Panorama to highlight how some RMOs in private hospitals are working up to 168 hours a week.

It's an issue we've covered before... [1/2]

GPs have voted overwhelmingly to reject the NHS England’s 2024/25 GP contract changes, with 99% of General Practice members voting ‘no’.

Chair Katie Bramall-Stainer says GPs are at ‘boiling point’.

We’ve been exposing the immense pressure on general practice for years... [1/7] 🧵

Junior doctors in Wales continue their 4-day strike today, calling for #PayRestoration to help fix a workforce crisis especially pronounced in Wales.

Meanwhile BMA Cymru Wales reveals 39% of medical students in Wales plan to leave the country after graduation👇
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As GPs across the UK continue to face burnout and leave the profession in their droves, one Highland doctor tells Jennifer Trueland how she changed how she practises – and how she lives – benefiting patients as well as her own health and wellbeing [1/5]:
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Rising concerns over the use of physician associates and other medical associate professionals (MAPs) in the NHS saw The BMA launch unprecedented guidance aimed at providing clarity and ensuring patient safety. Tim Tonkin reports in our latest edition [1/7]

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Picket scenes this morning 🪧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Standing united for #Payrestoration

Junior doctors in Wales have begun their third round of industrial action as they call for #PayRestoration to 2008 levels.

We can't be with BMA Cymru Wales Junior Doctors doctors today, but here are some pictures of previous pickets our writers have attended. [1/3]

BMA junior doctor members in England have voted by over 97% in favour of extending our mandate for industrial action, and to provide us with a mandate for action short of strike (ASOS).

A huge thank you to all of those who voted.

Read the full results 👇
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An increasing number of patients are avoiding hospital admissions and long stays through being monitored on ‘virtual wards’ at home.

Our writer Ben Jaxen Ireland went to Hertfordshire to find out how they work [1/8]
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Take a peek inside our March edition👀

It includes a deep-dive into the state of healthcare in Northern Ireland, has the latest on industrial action and PAs, and hears from Emma Runswick 🏳️‍🌈 about The BMA's opposition to the Strikes (MSL) Act.

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New legal powers enforcing minimum service levels in the NHS threaten to undermine doctors' ability to strike. In a piece for The Doctor The BMA deputy council chair Emma Runswick 🏳️‍🌈 explains why the new laws are both dangerous and unnecessary. 🧵[1/6]

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Burnout, uncertainty over the future and plans to quit the UK to practise abroad are among the worrying findings of a recent GP Registrars survey of more than 3,000 GPs in training across the UK. Tim Tonkin reports:

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