Essential benefits for all doctors – join today


Join the BMA
  • National and local representation
  • Individual employment advice and representation
  • Vital professional benefits
  • Exclusive personal benefits

    • As a busy doctor in today’s uncertain working climate, you cannot place too high a value on having someone to look after your employment, professional and personal interests.

    The British Medical Association is the independent trade union and professional association for all doctors working in the UK, and has 175 years’ experience of supporting doctors.

    This means we understand the issues that matter to you, and provide members with a valuable range of principal, professional and personal benefits.

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    Principal benefits
    • National and local negotiation on your terms and conditions of service
    • Individual employment advice and representation*
    • Individual guidance on professional, ethical and financial issues
    • Full access to all areas of bma.org.uk
    • Employment handbooks and guides
    • Free guidance notes available from askBMA and bma.org.uk
    • Weekly BMA News, and BMJ (incorporating BMJ Careers) tailored to primary or secondary care
    • Free access to bmj.com – one of the top medical websites in the world
    • Access to pension experts
    • Individual advice on matters relating to fees for medical services
    • Guidance on tax and National Insurance
    Professional benefits
    • Divisional meetings, clinical and medico-political conferences, and social events
    • Competitively priced surgery and locum insurance
    • BMA Partnership Agreement Drafting service exclusively for general medical practices
    • BMA Business Support
    • BMA Library, including free access to Medline Plus
    • Hammicks BMA Medical Bookshop, the online medical bookshop with discounts off many medical titles
    • 7.5% discount off medical products from BMA Medical Supplies Direct
    • A wide range of specialist careers services from BMA Careers Services
    • Free access to BMJ Learning, the interactive learning and CPD website
    • Discounted rates on BMJ Masterclasses, conferences providing the latest updates on evidence-based medicine, new guidelines and best practice
    • Preferential subscription rates on BMJ Journals on a range of specialities
    • Discounts off BMJ Clinical Evidence, one of the world’s most authoritative case-based medical resources
    • BMA Counselling and Doctors for Doctors service
    Personal benefits
    • Financial services and general insurance products from BMA Services:independent financial advice; home, motor and travel insurance; BMA Services American Express Credit Card
    • 20% discount off all Austin Reed full-priced clothing ordered online and in most stores
    • BMA Conveyancing Service – residential property conveyancing service at competitive discount prices
    • BMA Wills Service – the will writing service that’s easy, quick and at a negotiated discounted rate
    • Personal injury service
    • Wine club
    • Preferential hotel rates in London and Edinburgh
    • 25% discount off selected Dorling Kindersley BMA medical reference books
    • Discounted rates for facilities hire at BMA House in London and the BMA Scotland Office in Edinburgh
    *All individual representation is at the sole discretion of the BMA
      The BMA strongly advises all doctors to join one of the medical protection/defence organisations as well as the BMA.

      For any questions about BMA membership and subscriptions, please call us on 020 7383 6955, or email membership@bma.org.uk.

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