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The British Medical Association (BMA) is the doctors’ professional organisation established to look after the professional and personal needs of our members. The BMA represents doctors in all branches of medicine all over the UK and offers.
Visit our website for full details about membership benefits and how to join.
Advice When You Need It
BMA Employment Advisers
If you are a BMA member you can contact us with your employment queries.
Wellbeing support services
Confidential counselling and peer support for all doctors and medical students, available 24/7.
Call 0330 123 1245
We Represent Doctors Locally and Nationally
National Representation
Our branch of practice and specialist committees negotiate nationally, hold annual conferences and report to BMA council.
Our professional activities and special interest committees promote excellence on ethical, scientific, research, educational and international matters.
Regional Representation
Consultants, juniors and SAS doctors each have regional committees. In England, BMA members sit on Regional Councils.
Local Representation
Over 200 local BMA Divisions across the UK, allow for members to debate local matters with their local peers.
GPs also have local representation by Local Medical Committees (LMCs).
All hospital doctors are represented locally by Local Negotiating Committees (LNCs).
We are Your Trade Union and Professional Body
Trade Union and Professional Association
We stand up for doctors both individually and collectively on a wide variety of employment issues and, since the inception of the NHS, we have been formally recognised for collective bargaining purposes within national negotiating machinery and by individual employers at local level.
The BMA as a Professional Body
Through research and publishing we lead debate on key ethical, scientific and public health matters and award grants to encourage individual research in medicine.
Working with other bodies
We also work with a number of other professional bodies on issues which we, our members, or their patients have a legitimate interest.
Our Values
We are for doctors, because we are doctors.
Our insight and understanding helps us defend your interests when it matters most and fight hard to champion the profession.
We seek to guide doctors throughout all stages of their career - from medical school to retirement - through cultural shifts, technological advancements and economic pressures, we uphold and promote your interests in the context of continual evolution.
We are a democratic and open organisation. We ensure your collective voice is heard and shapes the future agenda of health for the nation.
We are the British Medical Association – for doctors, for health.