This audio briefing is a discussion of the BMA's work to highlight the pressures doctors are facing in the NHS, and why we have been lobbying for more funding and resources. With Jonathan Ware, head of the health policy team; Hannah Higgins, research officer; Rachel Evans, senior policy advisor; and Frances Player, policy advisor and support officer.

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Julian Sheather, Specialist advisor (Ethics and human rights)in the BMA's professionalism and guidance team, discusses the association's recent work on human rights.

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Disabled doctors and medical students were invited to complete an online survey which ran from November 2019 to January 2020. The survey was designed after consultation with members of the BMA’s EDI advisory group and the Disabled Doctors Network.

It asked disabled doctors and medical students to tell us about important issues affecting their professional lives and select priorities for action to create a more equal and inclusive profession. In addition to multiple choice responses, it included opportunities for free text

submissions on key questions, which provided further qualitative data to inform the findings and priorities for action set out in this report.

COVID-19 has challenged the NHS like no other public health emergency in living memory. GP Sharon Raymond has served not only her own patients during the pandemic, but has set up a number of potentially life-saving initiatives.

Read the article in The Doctor issue 23, here: https://www.bma.org.uk/news-and-opinion/the-doctor-issue-23-july-2020

To find out more about Covid Crisis Rescue, visit www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/coronavirus-fightback

The already difficult task of breaking bad news has been made much harder by rules preventing families from being at patients’ bedsides. Antonia Field-Smith, a consultant in palliative medicine, is one doctor who used her experience to help colleagues take on new roles as the pandemic began to grip.

Read the article in The Doctor issue 22, here: www.bma.org.uk/news-and-opinion/tough-calls-how-best-to-break-bad-news

Doctors' Notes - Giving back - preview 2 by TheBMA

Doctors' notes - Giving back - preview 1 by TheBMA

Shared alongside the BMA's A Vote for Health manifesto, psychiatrist Dr Gary Wannan discusses some of the key issues facing mental health services ahead of the election.

Alongside the BMA's A Vote for Health manifesto, junior doctors committee chair Jeeves Wijesuriya explains why doctors are under greater pressure than ever.

Shared alongside the BMA's A Vote for Health manifesto, NHS patient Terence Gardner talks about his local GP.