Our Mission
BIDA aims to support, encourage, train and acknowledge the wonderful work of Britain’s international doctors and dentists, without whom our NHS would simply collapse. We also promote understanding, tolerance, equity and fairness – join us, today at Join BIDA | British Internationa
Short-termism won't put an end to endo
Our women’s healthcare forum chair joined other members of BIDA at a conference calling for better treatment of endometriosis – including the establishment of one-stop clinics.
This approach has worked in the past with specialist doctors and nurses working in tandem to combat conditions such as diabetes and PAD.
Now Dr Anita Sharma (pictured with MP Elsie Blundell) wants to see one-stop endo clinics where patients would be seen, scanned, diagnosed and even given MRI tests.
Far from being expensive, she argued that these hubs would save the huge amounts spent on multiple GP and A&E visits.
Learn more about the event at https://endometriosisawarenessnorth.com/
A line on how well you've done
Thanks sincerely to all of our GP members for their superb work over the busy month of October – with eight million NHS online appointments conducted.
That’s an increase of a fifth on September and more than two-thirds up on last year’s figure.
Similarly, telephone consultations hit the heights, with 31 million actioned during that period.
But that doesn’t mean appointments are not being conducted face-to-face in surgery. A record 39 million took place in October 2025, including tens of thousands of Covid-19 vaccines.
The merits or otherwise of online and telephone appointments is of course, a big issue; but we believe the figures prove an indisputable fact. GPs and their teams work really, really, hard!
https://www.england.nhs.uk/2025/11/gps-managed-record-number-online-requests-october/
Nos vemos de nuevo Mexico!
Bidding a farewell to South America, where we played such a part in the 16th international annual science conference.
The free-ranging event looked at a raft of local, national, and global health issues and saw big representation from BIDA UK.
Pictured is Dr Anita Sharma, who spoke eloquently about female health inequalities.
Our Women’s Healthcare Forum Chair is the founder of charity Endometriosis Awareness North. Harming one-in-ten women, endo is a physical and mental health blight that has a relatively low public and medical profile – and can take up to ten years to diagnose.
There will be more about the conference in our next BIDA Journal and of course, on this website and on our social media.
From the President
Watch a message from our President on the 50-year-anniversary of BIDA and why we are founded on a philosophy of “friendship, dignity, respect and service above oneself.” https://www.youtube.com/shorts/C1HVB3oy2e8