BMA Articles

With record accident and emergency waiting times, continuous breaches of two-week wait requirement for cancer patients and NHS trust throughout the country experiencing record deficits – our NHS is not only broken, but in a state of disrepair. The Conservative record...

The problem with Jeremy is that he is basically alienating people who should be the party’s natural constituents through poor decision-making and ill-thought-through policy. No, not that Jeremy – I’m talking about the health secretary, who in a matter of weeks has...

On 4 July 1948, the day before the introduction of the National Health Service, the Labour party held a rally in Manchester. The main speaker, Labour’s minister of health and housing, Aneurin Bevan, captured the significance of the moment: ‘The eyes of the world are...

Today’s review of emergency care in the NHS takes place against the backdrop of increasing pressure on A&E departments and renewed speculation about an NHS 'winter crisis' – a feature of the NHS in the past which Labour managed to eliminate in office. Another...