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We’re delighted to announce that BMA Giving has awarded us funding to help doctors facing urgent financial hardship. Thanks to this generous support, we can provide emergency grants to doctors experiencing crisis as a result of illness, injury or bereavement. These rapid-response grants offer immediate financial assistance, helping to ease short-term pressures while we work […]
Sumaiya, Matthew, Elise and Kayleigh are four first year medical students who have a second thing in common: they all fundraised for the RMBF as aspiring medical students. Hear their tips for aspiring medical students and how fundraising helped them get into medical school. 3 things I wish I knew as an aspiring medical student: […]
This year, the RMBF are delighted to launch our very first online raffle! Tickets cost just £5 and the money raised will help doctors and medical students to get back on their feet after illness, injury or bereavement. We have some very exciting prizes to be won, including a top prize of two tickets for […]
The latest issue of our regular supporter newsletter is now available to download: Download PDF Links to resources Wellbeing & Advice Talking Therapies: Rightsteps Surviving F1: 10 top tips Webinar: Surviving and Flourishing During your Foundation Year How to Return to Work After a Career Break: Expert Tips & Advice Returning to Medicine: a Vital […]
Office hours The RMBF office will be closed over the Christmas period from 25 December 2025, and will re-open on 2 January 2026. We will have very limited staff availability on 22-24 December. Contacting us If you are a doctor or medical student in need of support, you can still get in touch with us […]
We have partnered with Rightsteps, workplace mental health specialists, to add a range of talking therapies for doctors to our online wellbeing resources. Rightsteps’ specialist team of in-house therapists offer a variety of confidential therapeutic approaches for doctors, including Integrative Therapy, Person-Centred Therapy, and Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, available via telephone or video sessions. Doctors can […]
RMBF stands with 31 other leading organisations in calling on the Health Minister to retain the GMC’s ability to investigate the fitness to practise of doctors with existing health concerns, under a distinct ‘health’ route. Currently, in cases where doctors are investigated under the ‘health’ category of impairment, the GMC can use language which acknowledges […]
Today is the National Suicide Memorial Day for Health and Care Workers, an annual event organised by NHS Practitioner Health and Doctors in Distress to remember the health and care workers we’ve lost to suicide – colleagues, friends, and loved ones whose absence is deeply felt. As an organisation, the RMBF is committed to remembering, […]
Dr Sebastian Shaw is an Assistant Professor in Medical Education at Brighton and Sussex Medical School. He is also the Research Lead for Autistic Doctors International. He is autistic, ADHD, and dyslexic – and has hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. He took the time to speak with us about his career and research, as well as sources […]
We’re thrilled to share that BMA Giving has awarded us a grant to support doctors in urgent crisis. Thanks to their incredible backing, we can deliver fast-track emergency grants—providing swift financial relief for doctors facing hardship due to illness, injury, or bereavement. These grants ease immediate cost-of-living pressures while we work with each doctor to […]
