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If you're a disabled doctor, know that your health and wellbeing are non-negotiable. Do not hesitate to seek support.

Built by doctors with disabilities, for doctors with disabilities. Whatever your condition, wherever you are in your career, you'll find something useful here. This page provides general peer‑support information and does not reproduce BMA guidance.

Where to start

Resources for disabled doctors

Just received a diagnosis? Trying to get a rota adjusted? Not sure what you're entitled to in training? Start here.

Reasonable Adjustments

Your legal right under the Equality Act. What to ask for, how to ask, and what to do when your employer says no.

Read the guidance

Discussing Disability at Work

You don't have to disclose everything. This BMA guidance helps you think through what to say, to whom, and when.

BMA guidance ↗

Less Than Full Time Working

Disability is a valid reason to apply for LTFT training. Here's how the process works and what it means for your pay.

BMA LTFT guidance ↗

Occupational Health

An OH referral can make all the difference. Know what to expect, and how to make sure the report actually reflects your needs.

Learn more

NHS Practitioner Health

Free and confidential. A dedicated NHS service for doctors with health difficulties, separate from your employer and your GP.

Visit Practitioner Health ↗

Training & Deanery Issues

Deaneries vary a lot in how well they support disabled trainees. If yours isn't engaging, here's what you can do about it.

Explore this section
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From the community

Stories from doctors like you

Real experiences, shared with consent. Reading someone else's account of getting a rota adjusted, or finally getting an OH referral taken seriously, can matter more than any policy document.

"I've heard first-hand accounts from disabled colleagues constantly battling rota teams just to get reasonable adjustments, this made me realise the serious gap in support, awareness, and interdepartmental communication."

Epilepsy  ·  GP Training  ·  West Midlands

Living with epilepsy as a doctor: my journey, challenges, and hopes for change

In this piece, published on the BMA website, he describes what it actually took to get reasonable adjustments in place, what went wrong along the way, and why he thinks the system needs to change.

Dr Syed Masihuddin  ·  GP Trainee, Shropshire
Read on BMA.org.uk

Share your story

Someone is going through exactly what you went through. They just don't know yet that it gets easier, or that they're entitled to more support than they're getting. Your experience could be the thing that helps them. All conditions welcome. You can be anonymous.

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Hidden disability

Not all disability is visible

Most disabled doctors in the NHS have conditions their colleagues cannot see. That invisibility creates a specific problem: people don't offer support they don't know is needed, and adjustments that should be routine become battles that have to be fought repeatedly.

The Hidden Disability Lanyard Scheme uses a green lanyard as a voluntary signal that the wearer may have a non-visible disability and could benefit from a little extra patience or support. You don't have to disclose your condition to wear one. Many NHS trusts have them available free of charge. Knowing what the lanyard means matters for everyone working in medicine, not just those who wear it.

Learn about hidden disability

The Hidden Disability Lanyard Scheme

A green lanyard with a small repeated pattern signals to others that the wearer may have a non-visible disability. Wearing it is voluntary and requires no disclosure of any specific condition. Available free in many NHS trusts.

Official scheme information ↗

BMA awareness resource

The BMA made a short film called "Not All Disability Is Visible." It's worth sharing with a rota coordinator, an educational supervisor, a new consultant. Two minutes. Makes a difference.

BMA disability equality resources ↗
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This site grows through community

It started with one doctor's experience. It gets more useful every time someone adds their own. Get in touch, for any reason.

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LMCs, deaneries, RCGP, BMA, individual doctors, if you want to build something together that helps disabled doctors, we want to hear from you.