Greg Beales

ALT Dear Mr Brittin, I am writing to you as Chair of the British Medical Association to raise our serious concern about reported cuts that will negatively affect the BBC’s health coverage, including the removal of the dedicated health editor position. I urge you to reconsider this decision and ask that the BBC protects the specialist reporting undertaken by its health journalists. Health journalism is core to the BBC’s mission, values and public purpose. The ability to explain complex health issues, investigate failures in care and hold powerful and complex NHS institutions to account is crucial. The BMA is itself subject to that same scrutiny and we welcome robust and independent journalism. At a time of sustained pressure on health services, and when misleading health claims can spread rapidly, the need for authoritative and independent scrutiny is clear.

ALT Letter to Alison McGovern MP and Ashley Dalton MP, requesting a metting to discuss the upcoming homelessness strategy, from Professor David Strain.

ALT Dr Tom Dolphin, elected chair of council 2025-28. "It's an honour and a privilege to have been elected to lead the nation's doctors at such a pivotal time...I will empower BMA members so that everywhere doctors work, we are there with them, and the exploitation and erosion of our profession is stopped."