The Latest Breaking News from the British Medical Association

First-year doctors vote in favour of strike action in dispute over jobs

The British Medical Association (BMA) suggested ongoing talks with the Government now needed to include settlement on jobs.

Evening Standard · Oct 6, 2025

GP practices across England now have to offer online booking

The British Medical Association has opposed the plans and is considering industrial action

The Independent UK · Oct 1, 2025

GPs in England threaten action over online appointment booking plan

Doctors’ union says GPs will be overwhelmed by ‘triage tsunami’ and gives ministers 48 hours to take measures

The Guardian - UK · Sep 29, 2025

NHS chiefs and BMA in row over patient safety during doctors’ strike

NHS England and union in war of words over striking doctors being asked to deal with emergency situations

The Guardian - UK · Jul 28, 2025

Resident doctors’ focus on pay is doing untold damage to the NHS

Letters: Robert Behrman fears resident doctors are leading the NHS towards a change in its entire ethos, and Prof David Cameron has cancelled his BMA subscription over their strike this week, but Marianne Gemmeke has sympathy for their action

The Guardian - UK · Jul 28, 2025

Fewer resident doctors thought to have gone on strike than in last year’s NHS stoppage

Picket-line turnout on first day of industrial action believed to be lower with hope of less disruption to NHS services

The Guardian - UK · Jul 25, 2025

Streeting says ‘we won’t let BMA hold country to ransom’ as resident doctors start five days of strikes – as it happened

Health secretary says government doing all it can to ‘minimise risk and disruption’ as BMA says pay has fallen more in real terms since 2008 than rest of population

The Guardian - UK · Jul 25, 2025

Doctor strikes begin despite Starmer’s last-ditch plea to avert five-day walkout

Health secretary Wes Streeting says BMA has left ‘damage at the door of the NHS’

The Independent UK · Jul 24, 2025

‘This strike will harm patients’: Top NHS official’s stark warning as BMA doctors set for five-day walkout

Resident doctors from the British Medical Association are due to walk out at 7am on Friday in a row over pay

The Independent UK · Jul 24, 2025

Voices: Poll of the day: Do you think resident doctors are fairly paid for the work they do?

Resident doctors are demanding a significant pay rise amid claims of long-term wage erosion, but critics argue their current salaries are fair and further increases would be unaffordable for the NHS

The Independent UK · Jul 24, 2025