If you've never given blood, please consider it 👇 In return for (typically) an hour of your time, you get -a detox (I like to think) -the feeling you've done something worthwhile -a text telling you where your red stuff has gone (Imperial NHS 💙 you're so welcome) -custard creams

#Nye returning to National Theatre next week is a must-see for anyone using the health service It spells out very clearly what we stand to lose if the NHS disappears and why Bevan created it in the first place Spot resident doctor Sara Otung in the cast alongside michael sheen 💙

‘I will empower BMA members so that everywhere that doctors work and medical students study, they know that they are stronger together, and the exploitation and erosion of our profession is stopped.’ Anaesthetic consultant Tom Dolphin🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ has been elected the new The BMA council

Our latest newsletter focuses on motions debated at the recent #BMAARM25, including: 🔴Long Covid 🔴Climate activist doctors 🔴Med school numbers Read it online here: bma-mail.org.uk/t/cr/AQiEtRUQ1…

One of the four 7/7 bombings in 2005 went off immediately outside the The BMA headquarters in London. 20 years on, Peter Blackburn speaks to two of the 15 doctors who ran towards danger to treat the victims [1/2]: thedoctor.bma.org.uk/articles/healt…

Check out our latest newsletter with news, features and analysis from The Doctor team. In it, we cover: 🔴Reaction to the The Leng review on PAs and AAs 🔴'Disturbing' results on AI trials in GP 🔴A doctor and Paralympian set to go to space Read it all here:

“Why on Earth would you want to go and work in Shetland?” In our latest podcast, consultant Pauline Wilson answers this question as she discusses the challenges and rewards of working as doctors in remote and rural areas with Orkney GP Neil Shepherd. Follow and listen now –

How do you feel about single-use plastics? Worry the NHS net zero goals are way off?🌍 How much do you feel YOU can contribute to progress? Today @theBMA launches a new sustainability survey in #PlasticFreeJuly and wants to hear doctors' thoughts. Seren Boyd reports:

If you're in medicine and care about the environmental and climate crisis, here's your chance to make your voice heard 👇

How did surgeon & Paralympian John McFall John McFall become the world's first astronaut with a physical disability? I'm struck by his mindset, best summed up as: 'Well, why not?' We may not be astronauts but perhaps we should ask: is a lack of imagination limiting us at all?

Interviewing 3 doctor–poets for The Doctor Magazine was a great gig for someone who loves words They explain so eloquently why words & literature matter Loved this from Tim Hodgetts CBE QHS: 'You can see the well read person in the crisis meetings: they've got something to fall back on'

For a glimpse into Jonny Acheson's life as an Emergency Medicine consultant living with Parkinson's, read our piece in The Doctor Magazine then get the full story at Routledge Books A seriously impressive, gracious man thedoctor.bma.org.uk/articles/docto…

⏰Shocking reveal🚨from a The BMA survey into disability and neurodivergence A THIRD of participants 'said they had experienced bullying or harassment as a result of their disability or neurodivergence'

Our latest newsletter is with doctors now. In it, you'll find: 🔴Coverage of The BMA's Medicine Under Attack report 🔴A look at how equalities are denied in some parts of the UK 🔴Interviews with doctors who write poetry Find all that and more, here: bma-mail.org.uk/t/cr/AQiEtRUQl…

Today is World Suicide Prevention Day — and 8 years since Dr Deep Sirur survived a suicide attempt. Once hiding depression and addiction, he now speaks out to help others. “I wasn’t a bad doctor. I was an ill doctor. And I got help.” doctors-in-distress.org.uk/world-suicide-… #WSPD2025

Perhaps the worst thing about the mental health crisis among health workers is that they feel alone in struggling to cope with workload & stress - perhaps even guilty for not coping Don't suffer in silence. Please seek help: lots available via our @thedrmagazine piece for #NSMD

'All roads lead to accident and emergency at the moment,' says Iona Collins.DOCTOR. for BMA Cymru Wales Its manifesto for the Welsh Parliament elections makes a compelling case for increased funding for general practice and preventative health. See what you think in our piece The Doctor Magazine

Our latest newsletter is with doctors now📩 In it, we: 🔴analyse new exception reporting reforms 🔴speak to an anaesthetist involved in the dawn of IVF 🔴hear from doctors who came 'back from the brink' 🔴meet an O&G consultant who trains doctors for warzones Read it all here👇