Michael Searles

3 days ago | telegraph.co.uk | Michael Searles

The doctor proposing the motion said personal numbers "are added to group chats, contact lists and office forms". "Doctors are expected to be constantly available. Messages late at night, last-minute rota requests, fast WhatsApp groups have become the backchannel for firefighting, stuffing crises. Organisations rely on constant access and often use guilt and coercion rather than proper workforce planning," she said.

4 days ago | ca.news.yahoo.com | Michael Searles

Jewish doctors feel “intimidated and unsafe” at the British Medical Association’s annual conference because one in 10 motions for debate relate to Israel, Palestine or Zionism. The three-day meeting is used to set out the doctor union’s policies and priorities based on motions put forward by members, but 43 – about 10 per cent of the total – were about Israel, Gaza, Palestine, anti-Semitism or Zionism. Just five were concerned about other “international relations”.

4 days ago | telegraph.co.uk | Michael Searles

At the same time, a protest staged outside the conference venue in Liverpool used "old shoes" to represent healthcare workers killed in Gaza - a visual statement synonymous with the shoes of Jewish people killed at concentration camps during the Holocaust - and considered anti-Semitic by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. The BMA was last week accused of a "cover-up" for dropping an investigation into its president, Mary McCarthy, for posts she made on X about the conflict in Gaza.

4 days ago | msn.com | Michael Searles

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4 days ago | telegraph.co.uk | Michael Searles

Doctors want to overthrow the medical regulator because it is "failing to protect patients". The majority of medics say they have lost confidence in the General Medical Council (GMC) and want it replaced. Leaders at the British Medical Association (BMA) are calling for a new independent regulator to be set up to focus solely on doctors after the GMC also controversially began regulating physician associates.