The BMA
@bma.org.uk
We’re the trade union and professional body for UK doctors and medical students.
The mental health of young people is worsening, placing increasing demand on both the NHS and schools.
#TheDrMagazine reports on how support services can't meet this rocketing demand.
🔗 thedoctor.bma.org.uk/articles/hea...
#TheDrMagazine reports on how support services can't meet this rocketing demand.
🔗 thedoctor.bma.org.uk/articles/hea...
![“Children and young people are having to reach an absolute crisis to meet thresholds for [mental health] services because waiting lists are so long… Too often there’s a sense that children need to be actively trying to end their life in order to be properly supported.”
John James Alexander Moore
Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:46ieymyomewdswfjjvvoxexq/bafkreicte2c6nm7vnu7bd6oegd5qlsb2bpf4ad5htphpqvv6lbr3btl2li@jpeg)
January 9, 2026 at 1:11 PM
The mental health of young people is worsening, placing increasing demand on both the NHS and schools.
#TheDrMagazine reports on how support services can't meet this rocketing demand.
🔗 thedoctor.bma.org.uk/articles/hea...
#TheDrMagazine reports on how support services can't meet this rocketing demand.
🔗 thedoctor.bma.org.uk/articles/hea...
Undignified and unsafe 'corridor care' is now normalised in emergency departments around the country.
To end the Government must invest in staff, beds, and buildings across the whole system.
Read our full response to the new report: www.bma.org.uk/bma-media-ce...
To end the Government must invest in staff, beds, and buildings across the whole system.
Read our full response to the new report: www.bma.org.uk/bma-media-ce...
🆕 REPORT
➡️ Patient care in temporary care environments
📖 Read the report: buff.ly/w8KKiUP
#PatientSafety #NHS #Healthcare #CorridorCare
➡️ Patient care in temporary care environments
📖 Read the report: buff.ly/w8KKiUP
#PatientSafety #NHS #Healthcare #CorridorCare
January 8, 2026 at 11:39 AM
Undignified and unsafe 'corridor care' is now normalised in emergency departments around the country.
To end the Government must invest in staff, beds, and buildings across the whole system.
Read our full response to the new report: www.bma.org.uk/bma-media-ce...
To end the Government must invest in staff, beds, and buildings across the whole system.
Read our full response to the new report: www.bma.org.uk/bma-media-ce...
The Government's Road Safety Strategy, announced today, is a welcome step towards improving public health. Any amount of alcohol impairs judgement and reaction times, and even modest reductions in blood alcohol limits have been shown to significantly reduce harm.
January 7, 2026 at 2:58 PM
The Government's Road Safety Strategy, announced today, is a welcome step towards improving public health. Any amount of alcohol impairs judgement and reaction times, and even modest reductions in blood alcohol limits have been shown to significantly reduce harm.
Resident doctors, we need your 'YES' vote to keep the pressure on the Government in 2026 to get you more jobs and better pay.
Tens of thousands of doctors are facing unemployment and real pay is down 21% since 2008.
Get your ballot back in the post by 26 January to make sure your voice is heard.
Tens of thousands of doctors are facing unemployment and real pay is down 21% since 2008.
Get your ballot back in the post by 26 January to make sure your voice is heard.
January 6, 2026 at 4:24 PM
Resident doctors, we need your 'YES' vote to keep the pressure on the Government in 2026 to get you more jobs and better pay.
Tens of thousands of doctors are facing unemployment and real pay is down 21% since 2008.
Get your ballot back in the post by 26 January to make sure your voice is heard.
Tens of thousands of doctors are facing unemployment and real pay is down 21% since 2008.
Get your ballot back in the post by 26 January to make sure your voice is heard.
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Substitution of expertise with enthusiasm doesn’t work when so much of what our NHS clinical staff do is based on years of training, exams and experience. @bma.org.uk agrees with @rcn.org.uk that we shouldn’t be replacing expert clinicians the way the NHS is currently rushing to do.
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: English hospitals that cut registered nurses saw more deaths while those hiring nurses saw more patients survive. Even when hospitals tried to fill gaps with non-nurses, deaths still went up. Major new study exposes dangerous NHS variation:
www.thetimes.com/article/7eed...
www.thetimes.com/article/7eed...
Death rates rise when NHS cuts back on nursing
Using lower-paid workers to plug the gaps left by a failure to hire registered nurses damages safety, new research has shown
www.thetimes.com
December 21, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Substitution of expertise with enthusiasm doesn’t work when so much of what our NHS clinical staff do is based on years of training, exams and experience. @bma.org.uk agrees with @rcn.org.uk that we shouldn’t be replacing expert clinicians the way the NHS is currently rushing to do.
For the past five days, tens of thousands of resident doctors in England took strike action over jobs and pay, yet it didn’t need to happen.
Our members showed their collective strength and are demanding a credible new offer from the Government.
Our members showed their collective strength and are demanding a credible new offer from the Government.
December 22, 2025 at 11:09 AM
For the past five days, tens of thousands of resident doctors in England took strike action over jobs and pay, yet it didn’t need to happen.
Our members showed their collective strength and are demanding a credible new offer from the Government.
Our members showed their collective strength and are demanding a credible new offer from the Government.
Patients need doctors. Doctors need jobs.
We're on strike because there were no new jobs in the government’s offer last week, they simply repurposed jobs that already existed for the sake of ‘new’ jobs on paper.
We need the Government to create more training places for resident doctors.
We're on strike because there were no new jobs in the government’s offer last week, they simply repurposed jobs that already existed for the sake of ‘new’ jobs on paper.
We need the Government to create more training places for resident doctors.
December 19, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Patients need doctors. Doctors need jobs.
We're on strike because there were no new jobs in the government’s offer last week, they simply repurposed jobs that already existed for the sake of ‘new’ jobs on paper.
We need the Government to create more training places for resident doctors.
We're on strike because there were no new jobs in the government’s offer last week, they simply repurposed jobs that already existed for the sake of ‘new’ jobs on paper.
We need the Government to create more training places for resident doctors.
We wrote to David Lammy and Wes Streeting on Tuesday to express concern over access to healthcare for prisoners on hunger strike.
After reports of delayed admission to hospital for a prisoner, we remain concerned for the welfare of the remaining hunger strikers. (1/2)
After reports of delayed admission to hospital for a prisoner, we remain concerned for the welfare of the remaining hunger strikers. (1/2)
December 19, 2025 at 10:49 AM
We wrote to David Lammy and Wes Streeting on Tuesday to express concern over access to healthcare for prisoners on hunger strike.
After reports of delayed admission to hospital for a prisoner, we remain concerned for the welfare of the remaining hunger strikers. (1/2)
After reports of delayed admission to hospital for a prisoner, we remain concerned for the welfare of the remaining hunger strikers. (1/2)
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Well done @bmacymru.bsky.social on the new resident doctors' contract! Meanwhile in England residents fight on in their campaign and at the same time @bma.org.uk continues work on all the other issues our members care about. This is what an active, member-led union with amazing staff looks like!
December 18, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Well done @bmacymru.bsky.social on the new resident doctors' contract! Meanwhile in England residents fight on in their campaign and at the same time @bma.org.uk continues work on all the other issues our members care about. This is what an active, member-led union with amazing staff looks like!
🚨Calling all resident doctors in England🚨
It's time to vote YES in our re-ballot for jobs and pay.
Vote and post today! Don't delay.
Find out more👉 bma.org.uk/rdballot
It's time to vote YES in our re-ballot for jobs and pay.
Vote and post today! Don't delay.
Find out more👉 bma.org.uk/rdballot
December 18, 2025 at 2:26 PM
🚨Calling all resident doctors in England🚨
It's time to vote YES in our re-ballot for jobs and pay.
Vote and post today! Don't delay.
Find out more👉 bma.org.uk/rdballot
It's time to vote YES in our re-ballot for jobs and pay.
Vote and post today! Don't delay.
Find out more👉 bma.org.uk/rdballot
Across the country resident doctors were out on the picket lines showing their collective strength.
These strikes didn’t have to happen, Wes Streeting
could have listened to doctors and come forward with workable, sustainable solutions for both jobs and pay.
These strikes didn’t have to happen, Wes Streeting
could have listened to doctors and come forward with workable, sustainable solutions for both jobs and pay.
December 17, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Across the country resident doctors were out on the picket lines showing their collective strength.
These strikes didn’t have to happen, Wes Streeting
could have listened to doctors and come forward with workable, sustainable solutions for both jobs and pay.
These strikes didn’t have to happen, Wes Streeting
could have listened to doctors and come forward with workable, sustainable solutions for both jobs and pay.
"The GMC received more applications last year to leave our NHS than in the last decade" Dr Callum Parr tells Sky News.
Some resident doctors are facing unemployment and others are leaving the country entirely. Short-term thinking won’t cut it.
Some resident doctors are facing unemployment and others are leaving the country entirely. Short-term thinking won’t cut it.
December 17, 2025 at 12:12 PM
"The GMC received more applications last year to leave our NHS than in the last decade" Dr Callum Parr tells Sky News.
Some resident doctors are facing unemployment and others are leaving the country entirely. Short-term thinking won’t cut it.
Some resident doctors are facing unemployment and others are leaving the country entirely. Short-term thinking won’t cut it.
Our Emma Runswick on BBC Breakfast this morning about today’s resident doctors’ strike over jobs and pay.
Thousands of resident doctors face unemployment, with many more leaving the UK altogether.
Thousands of resident doctors face unemployment, with many more leaving the UK altogether.
December 17, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Our Emma Runswick on BBC Breakfast this morning about today’s resident doctors’ strike over jobs and pay.
Thousands of resident doctors face unemployment, with many more leaving the UK altogether.
Thousands of resident doctors face unemployment, with many more leaving the UK altogether.
Today 10,000s of doctors will go out on strike, as they're willing to stand up for their profession against a totally avoidable jobs and pay crisis.
Resident doctors need jobs, and when they find those jobs, they need to be paid fairly for it.
Resident doctors need jobs, and when they find those jobs, they need to be paid fairly for it.
December 17, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Today 10,000s of doctors will go out on strike, as they're willing to stand up for their profession against a totally avoidable jobs and pay crisis.
Resident doctors need jobs, and when they find those jobs, they need to be paid fairly for it.
Resident doctors need jobs, and when they find those jobs, they need to be paid fairly for it.
What message do you want to send Wes Streeting tomorrow?
Have you got your placard ready?
Join us on the picket line from 7am. Find your nearest one 👉 bma.org.uk/rdpicketlines
Have you got your placard ready?
Join us on the picket line from 7am. Find your nearest one 👉 bma.org.uk/rdpicketlines
December 16, 2025 at 3:35 PM
What message do you want to send Wes Streeting tomorrow?
Have you got your placard ready?
Join us on the picket line from 7am. Find your nearest one 👉 bma.org.uk/rdpicketlines
Have you got your placard ready?
Join us on the picket line from 7am. Find your nearest one 👉 bma.org.uk/rdpicketlines
Resident doctors in England📢
With the strikes going ahead tomorrow, it's time to get ready for the picket line. Join us from 7am at your nearest one, find yours here👉https://bma.org.uk/rdpicketlines
With the strikes going ahead tomorrow, it's time to get ready for the picket line. Join us from 7am at your nearest one, find yours here👉https://bma.org.uk/rdpicketlines
December 16, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Resident doctors in England📢
With the strikes going ahead tomorrow, it's time to get ready for the picket line. Join us from 7am at your nearest one, find yours here👉https://bma.org.uk/rdpicketlines
With the strikes going ahead tomorrow, it's time to get ready for the picket line. Join us from 7am at your nearest one, find yours here👉https://bma.org.uk/rdpicketlines
Tomorrow’s strike is still entirely avoidable, Wes Streeting should work with us to come up with a credible offer to end this jobs crisis and avert the real terms pay cuts he is pushing in 2026.
We're willing to work to find a solution if he is
We're willing to work to find a solution if he is
December 16, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Tomorrow’s strike is still entirely avoidable, Wes Streeting should work with us to come up with a credible offer to end this jobs crisis and avert the real terms pay cuts he is pushing in 2026.
We're willing to work to find a solution if he is
We're willing to work to find a solution if he is
The BMA is horrified by the attack in Australia this weekend. We condemn antisemitism and hate in all its forms, and stand in solidarity with the affected communities and the healthcare workers who responded to the attack.
December 15, 2025 at 8:38 PM
The BMA is horrified by the attack in Australia this weekend. We condemn antisemitism and hate in all its forms, and stand in solidarity with the affected communities and the healthcare workers who responded to the attack.
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@bma.org.uk Residents have rejected Wes Streeting's offer, and will be back on the picket lines from 17 December.
We've worked with the BMA to map all the strikes, including days & times for you to join your nearest picket line: bit.ly/BMADecemberPickets
#StrikeMap #DoctorStrike #NHS
We've worked with the BMA to map all the strikes, including days & times for you to join your nearest picket line: bit.ly/BMADecemberPickets
#StrikeMap #DoctorStrike #NHS
December 15, 2025 at 4:23 PM
@bma.org.uk Residents have rejected Wes Streeting's offer, and will be back on the picket lines from 17 December.
We've worked with the BMA to map all the strikes, including days & times for you to join your nearest picket line: bit.ly/BMADecemberPickets
#StrikeMap #DoctorStrike #NHS
We've worked with the BMA to map all the strikes, including days & times for you to join your nearest picket line: bit.ly/BMADecemberPickets
#StrikeMap #DoctorStrike #NHS
"The Government’s latest offer fails to address the medical jobs crisis and does nothing to stem the exodus of medics from this country."
The health secretary must start treating doctors with respect, as Dr Jack Fletcher writes in the Guardian 📢👇
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The health secretary must start treating doctors with respect, as Dr Jack Fletcher writes in the Guardian 📢👇
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Why did doctors reject Wes Streeting’s offer? It still fails to treat us with respect | Jack Fletcher
We can still call off this week’s strike – if the health secretary meaningfully addresses job shortages, real-terms pay cuts and the ongoing exodus, chair of the BMA’s UK resident doctors committee
www.theguardian.com
December 15, 2025 at 5:58 PM
"The Government’s latest offer fails to address the medical jobs crisis and does nothing to stem the exodus of medics from this country."
The health secretary must start treating doctors with respect, as Dr Jack Fletcher writes in the Guardian 📢👇
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The health secretary must start treating doctors with respect, as Dr Jack Fletcher writes in the Guardian 📢👇
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Strikes will GO AHEAD from 17-22 December, after resident doctors in England voted overwhelmingly to reject the latest offer from Wes Streeting.
December 15, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Strikes will GO AHEAD from 17-22 December, after resident doctors in England voted overwhelmingly to reject the latest offer from Wes Streeting.
“Simply put, we don’t have the resources to look after the people of this country. I think the people of this country who pay a lot in taxes to have an NHS that works for them are suffering.” RDC deputy chair Arjan Singh
Listen here 🎧👇
Listen here 🎧👇
December 14, 2025 at 11:04 AM
“Simply put, we don’t have the resources to look after the people of this country. I think the people of this country who pay a lot in taxes to have an NHS that works for them are suffering.” RDC deputy chair Arjan Singh
Listen here 🎧👇
Listen here 🎧👇
“Mr Streeting holds all the cards to both postponing the strike and ending the dispute once and for all, but he seems more interested in political grandstanding and exploiting public fears.”
Read our response in full.
www.bma.org.uk/bma-media-ce...
Read our response in full.
www.bma.org.uk/bma-media-ce...
December 13, 2025 at 11:57 AM
“Mr Streeting holds all the cards to both postponing the strike and ending the dispute once and for all, but he seems more interested in political grandstanding and exploiting public fears.”
Read our response in full.
www.bma.org.uk/bma-media-ce...
Read our response in full.
www.bma.org.uk/bma-media-ce...
The BMA is aware of serious concerns across this Trust over bullying, and the loss of experienced and capable senior staff linked to poor culture.
We’ve raised concerns about Dr Noble’s treatment and await national and regional intervention.
www.doncasterfreepress.co.uk/news/people/...
We’ve raised concerns about Dr Noble’s treatment and await national and regional intervention.
www.doncasterfreepress.co.uk/news/people/...
Staff and patients rally behind whistleblowing DRI doctor who raised bullying concerns
Staff and patients have rallied behind a whistleblowing Doncaster Royal Infirmary doctor who has been suspended for more than a year after raising concerns about bullying and harrassment – with others...
www.doncasterfreepress.co.uk
December 12, 2025 at 10:42 AM
The BMA is aware of serious concerns across this Trust over bullying, and the loss of experienced and capable senior staff linked to poor culture.
We’ve raised concerns about Dr Noble’s treatment and await national and regional intervention.
www.doncasterfreepress.co.uk/news/people/...
We’ve raised concerns about Dr Noble’s treatment and await national and regional intervention.
www.doncasterfreepress.co.uk/news/people/...