The Latest Breaking News from BMA

AI catching Bangkok traffic offenders

City Hall is using artificial intelligence software (AI) to catch traffic offenders and will also use it to improve traffic flow management at intersections, the Bangkok governor said on Wednesday.

Bangkok Post · Jun 21, 2023

Concerns raised as thousands of mental health patients forced to travel miles for treatment: ‘Dehumanising’

Sending vulnerable patients far from home and loved ones hampers their recovery and heightens risk, policy analyst say

The Independent UK · Jun 21, 2023

More than 5,000 mental health patients sent over 62 miles for treatment

Figures come two years after ministers pledged to end ‘dangerous’ practice and highlight ongoing chronic shortage of mental health beds in NHS

The Guardian - UK · Jun 21, 2023

Cameron and Osborne must be ‘taken to task’ for austerity at Covid inquiry – BMA

The British Medical Association said the pair were responsible for a decade of cuts to the NHS.

The Independent UK · Jun 18, 2023

NHS Providers boss warns of health service ‘looking into abyss’ if consultants strike

BMA’s junior doctors’ committee says government can end dispute by ‘paying doctors what they are worth’

The Guardian - UK · Jun 16, 2023

'It gets worse every year - and it's difficult to see that changing' - the bleak outlook for the NHS

With junior doctor strikes threatening to continue into 2024, we ask when the tide might turn for the crisis-hit NHS

Manchester Evening News · Jun 16, 2023

'We'll strike every month until next spring if we have to' - hundreds of doctors take to the streets of Manchester

If members vote to continue strikes, junior doctors will take to picket lines for three days a month, every month, until March 2024

Manchester Evening News · Jun 15, 2023

The GMC’s damning silence on medical negligence cases

Letter: Raj Persaud says doctors have lost confidence in their regulator, the General Medical Council

The Guardian - UK · Jun 15, 2023

Junior doctors strikes will escalate to ‘indefinite with-drawl of labor’, union lead warns

Hundreds of junior doctors gathered outside of an NHS conference to protest on the first day of strikes

The Independent UK · Jun 15, 2023

Top junior doctor in North Tyneside believes 'public are behind us' and urges Government action to solve NHS crisis

Milo Kostusiak said the Government needs to act to prevent a spiralling NHS workforce crisis.

Chronicle Live · Jun 15, 2023