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BMA seeks deal with Government to tackle doctor unemployment as crisis looms

Fresh survey shows more than half of FY2 doctors have no job confirmed from next month

Pay & Contracts By Ben Ireland

Equality denied

People with disabilities have fewer rights in one part of the UK than they do in the others. For doctors, it means that basic things to keep them safe, like hand gel and fire doors, are literally out of their reach. By Jennifer Trueland

By Jennifer Trueland 15.08.25

Ready for anything

While her vehicle could become stuck in the mud, the rest of Kerry Greenan's volunteering experience in Africa sounds intensely liberating, seeing a wide range of medicine, which has prepared her well for life back in the UK. Tim Tonkin reports

By Tim Tonkin 14.08.25

Well versed – what poetry can bring to medicine

Why would a doctor write poetry? Given how some use it – as a coping mechanism in war and abusive situations, to help them better relate to patients and to combat burnout – they might ask, how can a doctor manage without it? By Seren Boyd

By Seren Boyd 06.08.25

Binning the beige buffet

Health service catering has tended to offer little in the way of either 'health' or 'service', but it's not all pie, chips and pop, as Ben Ireland discovered at a hospital determined to do better

By Ben Ireland 31.07.25

Hello Mr Chips

Hospital food doesn’t have to be awful, apparently. How’s yours?

By Neil Hallows 31.07.25

BMA seeks deal with Government to tackle doctor unemployment as crisis looms

Fresh survey shows more than half of FY2 doctors have no job confirmed from next month

By Ben Ireland 29.07.25

How I got my GP job

How does a long commute grab you? Disappointing pay? Or more likely, no job at all? Newly-qualified GP Ikenna Ogbu takes us on his route to employment

By Ikenna Ogbu 28.07.25

Keeping up the fight

Ben Ireland joins resident doctors on a picket line in Birmingham as they take industrial action for the twelfth time in the pay restoration campaign, the first strike under a Labour government

Ben Ireland 25.07.25