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Doctors should be experts in illness but as a group we are notoriously bad at looking after our own health, says JuniorDr's Rosie Puplett. We often feel pressured into working even when we are...

Whether it's tweeting about lunch in the hospital canteen or sharing ways to improve healthcare, Twitter is quickly becoming the hottest social media platform for doctors. Discovering who to follow among the half a billion...

Who you gonna call? The GMC has launched a new confidential helpline which doctors can call to raise concerns about patient safety. Callers to 0161 923 6399 can speak to specially trained advisors who will...

Patients in hospital should be reviewed by a consultant at least once every 24 hours, including weekends and bank holidays, unless there is a good reason for them to not to have a daily...

Medical student places are to be cut by 2 per cent in 2013 to reduce the risk of unemployment among newly qualified doctors, following The Review of Medical and Dental School Intakes in England. The...

The BMA has called for urgent help for overseas junior doctors who graduated from UK medical schools and are now facing problems completing specialty training due to changes in visa requirements. This year the tier-1...

The NHS should scrap the current nation- al pay agreements for doctors and replace them with local and performance-related agreements, says leading think tank Reform. The report, Doctors and Nurses, said that maintaining the current...

Doctors have launched a new political party which aims to put the NHS at the heart of the next general election. The party, National Health Action, opposes the Health and Social Care Act which it...

A new medical school has been launched at the University of Exeter with the first intake of 130 students expected in September 2013. Applications have recently closed, and demand for the course is high with...

Medical students and junior doctors are being warned that their past Twitter and Facebook posts are increasingly being checked as part of shortlisting for medical school and jobs. A study, the largest of its kind...