Emma Runswick
@redrunswick.bsky.social
Resident Doctor in Psychiatry 👩⚕
Trade unionist ✊🏻 Socialist 🌹
BMA Deputy Chair of Council ⚕️ @the-bma.bsky.social
She/Her 🏳️🌈
Will follow but unlikely to post about interests:
D&D 🧝🏾♀️🧙🏼⚔️🎲
BSL and Deaf culture 🤙🏻
Folk music 🎵🪗
Everton FC ⚽️
Trade unionist ✊🏻 Socialist 🌹
BMA Deputy Chair of Council ⚕️ @the-bma.bsky.social
She/Her 🏳️🌈
Will follow but unlikely to post about interests:
D&D 🧝🏾♀️🧙🏼⚔️🎲
BSL and Deaf culture 🤙🏻
Folk music 🎵🪗
Everton FC ⚽️
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Resident doctors in England are not ‘morally reprehensible,' to be on strike today, as Wes Streeting puts it. This is about fair pay, pay that's down more than a fifth since 2008.
Read more in #TheDrMagazine 👇
thedoctor.bma.org.uk/articles/pay...
Read more in #TheDrMagazine 👇
thedoctor.bma.org.uk/articles/pay...
November 14, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Resident doctors in England are not ‘morally reprehensible,' to be on strike today, as Wes Streeting puts it. This is about fair pay, pay that's down more than a fifth since 2008.
Read more in #TheDrMagazine 👇
thedoctor.bma.org.uk/articles/pay...
Read more in #TheDrMagazine 👇
thedoctor.bma.org.uk/articles/pay...
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Resident doctors across England are striking over pay and jobs today.
Here's why 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kghw...
Here's why 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kghw...
Resident doctors on the picket line tell us why they're striking
YouTube video by BMAtv
www.youtube.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Resident doctors across England are striking over pay and jobs today.
Here's why 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kghw...
Here's why 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kghw...
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NEW BLOG
🗣️‘Paying doctors what we are worth, is a key part of restoring our NHS to something we can all be proud of’
SRDC chair @chrissmith2211.bsky.social on the need to vote yes and vote early in the IA ballot for resident doctors in Scotland
Read ⬇️
bmascotland.home.blog/2025/11/14/s...
🗣️‘Paying doctors what we are worth, is a key part of restoring our NHS to something we can all be proud of’
SRDC chair @chrissmith2211.bsky.social on the need to vote yes and vote early in the IA ballot for resident doctors in Scotland
Read ⬇️
bmascotland.home.blog/2025/11/14/s...
Scottish resident doctor ballot opens: vote yes and vote early
Today is a significant moment for resident doctors in Scotland as our ballot for strike action opens. It is a time for us to show again that we are united, and prepared to act to protect the future…
bmascotland.home.blog
November 14, 2025 at 4:25 PM
NEW BLOG
🗣️‘Paying doctors what we are worth, is a key part of restoring our NHS to something we can all be proud of’
SRDC chair @chrissmith2211.bsky.social on the need to vote yes and vote early in the IA ballot for resident doctors in Scotland
Read ⬇️
bmascotland.home.blog/2025/11/14/s...
🗣️‘Paying doctors what we are worth, is a key part of restoring our NHS to something we can all be proud of’
SRDC chair @chrissmith2211.bsky.social on the need to vote yes and vote early in the IA ballot for resident doctors in Scotland
Read ⬇️
bmascotland.home.blog/2025/11/14/s...
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📣 Five days of strike action in England starts today.
These strikes could have been averted, if Wes Streeting had a credible pay and jobs offer for resident doctors in England to consider.
🪧 See you on the picket lines: www.bma.org.uk/rdpicketlines
These strikes could have been averted, if Wes Streeting had a credible pay and jobs offer for resident doctors in England to consider.
🪧 See you on the picket lines: www.bma.org.uk/rdpicketlines
November 14, 2025 at 10:45 AM
📣 Five days of strike action in England starts today.
These strikes could have been averted, if Wes Streeting had a credible pay and jobs offer for resident doctors in England to consider.
🪧 See you on the picket lines: www.bma.org.uk/rdpicketlines
These strikes could have been averted, if Wes Streeting had a credible pay and jobs offer for resident doctors in England to consider.
🪧 See you on the picket lines: www.bma.org.uk/rdpicketlines
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November 14, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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RESIDENT DOCTORS IN SCOTLAND: YOUR BALLOT FOR STRIKE ACTION IS OPEN.
You should be receiving your orange envelope with your ballot soon.
This is YOUR chance to have YOUR say, and hold the Scot Gov to the deal.
Please, vote early and vote yes.
You should be receiving your orange envelope with your ballot soon.
This is YOUR chance to have YOUR say, and hold the Scot Gov to the deal.
Please, vote early and vote yes.
November 14, 2025 at 11:23 AM
RESIDENT DOCTORS IN SCOTLAND: YOUR BALLOT FOR STRIKE ACTION IS OPEN.
You should be receiving your orange envelope with your ballot soon.
This is YOUR chance to have YOUR say, and hold the Scot Gov to the deal.
Please, vote early and vote yes.
You should be receiving your orange envelope with your ballot soon.
This is YOUR chance to have YOUR say, and hold the Scot Gov to the deal.
Please, vote early and vote yes.
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"We've really lost a huge amount of pay in medicine. The fact we are still a fifth less well off than we were in 2008 I think is a damning indictment of the way many governments have treated public sector workers"
BMA deputy chair @redrunswick.bsky.social
speaks to the BBC ahead of strike action 👇
BMA deputy chair @redrunswick.bsky.social
speaks to the BBC ahead of strike action 👇
November 12, 2025 at 11:19 AM
"We've really lost a huge amount of pay in medicine. The fact we are still a fifth less well off than we were in 2008 I think is a damning indictment of the way many governments have treated public sector workers"
BMA deputy chair @redrunswick.bsky.social
speaks to the BBC ahead of strike action 👇
BMA deputy chair @redrunswick.bsky.social
speaks to the BBC ahead of strike action 👇
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Long COVID has had debilitating effects on numerous health workers – many of whom remain unable to work.
The Government urgently needs to accept the Industrial Injuries Advisory Council’s recommendations as a crucial first step in recognising this.
Read more 👉 www.bma.org.uk/bma-media-ce...
The Government urgently needs to accept the Industrial Injuries Advisory Council’s recommendations as a crucial first step in recognising this.
Read more 👉 www.bma.org.uk/bma-media-ce...
November 12, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Long COVID has had debilitating effects on numerous health workers – many of whom remain unable to work.
The Government urgently needs to accept the Industrial Injuries Advisory Council’s recommendations as a crucial first step in recognising this.
Read more 👉 www.bma.org.uk/bma-media-ce...
The Government urgently needs to accept the Industrial Injuries Advisory Council’s recommendations as a crucial first step in recognising this.
Read more 👉 www.bma.org.uk/bma-media-ce...
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Health and care workers worked tirelessly throughout the COVID-19 pandemic to care for their patients, yet many were not adequately protected.
Together with the @rcn.org.uk we are calling on the UK Government to take a first step in recognising Long COVID as an occupational disease.
Together with the @rcn.org.uk we are calling on the UK Government to take a first step in recognising Long COVID as an occupational disease.
November 12, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Health and care workers worked tirelessly throughout the COVID-19 pandemic to care for their patients, yet many were not adequately protected.
Together with the @rcn.org.uk we are calling on the UK Government to take a first step in recognising Long COVID as an occupational disease.
Together with the @rcn.org.uk we are calling on the UK Government to take a first step in recognising Long COVID as an occupational disease.
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"As doctors, we at the BMA wish to ensure that, while resident doctors are taking lawful industrial action, patients remain safe"
Today, @tomdolphin.bsky.social and @redrunswick.bsky.social have written to NHS leaders to ensure the derogations system is used properly during strike action 👇
Today, @tomdolphin.bsky.social and @redrunswick.bsky.social have written to NHS leaders to ensure the derogations system is used properly during strike action 👇
November 12, 2025 at 3:22 PM
"As doctors, we at the BMA wish to ensure that, while resident doctors are taking lawful industrial action, patients remain safe"
Today, @tomdolphin.bsky.social and @redrunswick.bsky.social have written to NHS leaders to ensure the derogations system is used properly during strike action 👇
Today, @tomdolphin.bsky.social and @redrunswick.bsky.social have written to NHS leaders to ensure the derogations system is used properly during strike action 👇
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"If we want to fix the NHS for patients in the future, we need to ensure that doctors we have trained are able to get jobs, while at the same time we keep the ones we do have by valuing them properly." @bma.org.uk deputy chair @redrunswick.bsky.social speaks about resident doctor strike action.
November 11, 2025 at 8:40 AM
"If we want to fix the NHS for patients in the future, we need to ensure that doctors we have trained are able to get jobs, while at the same time we keep the ones we do have by valuing them properly." @bma.org.uk deputy chair @redrunswick.bsky.social speaks about resident doctor strike action.
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The Govt has suggested a pay uplift of just 2.5% for doctors next year, well below inflation.
With resident doctors striking next month over pay and jobs, it is “frankly indefensible that yet another Government is once again suggesting real-terms pay cut for doctors," says
@tomdolphin.bsky.social
With resident doctors striking next month over pay and jobs, it is “frankly indefensible that yet another Government is once again suggesting real-terms pay cut for doctors," says
@tomdolphin.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 10:30 AM
The Govt has suggested a pay uplift of just 2.5% for doctors next year, well below inflation.
With resident doctors striking next month over pay and jobs, it is “frankly indefensible that yet another Government is once again suggesting real-terms pay cut for doctors," says
@tomdolphin.bsky.social
With resident doctors striking next month over pay and jobs, it is “frankly indefensible that yet another Government is once again suggesting real-terms pay cut for doctors," says
@tomdolphin.bsky.social
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➡️ ‘We will not sit idle while the Scottish Government attempts to break the deal that they struck with Scottish resident doctors in 2023’
Read the blog from SRDC chair @chrissmith2211.bsky.social which explains the details of the IA ballot 👇
bmascotland.home.blog/2025/10/31/s...
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Read the blog from SRDC chair @chrissmith2211.bsky.social which explains the details of the IA ballot 👇
bmascotland.home.blog/2025/10/31/s...
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Scottish Residents’ Ballot to open on 14th November
Since the Scottish Resident Doctors Committee (SRDC) announced that we had entered formal dispute with the Scottish Government 3 weeks ago, there has been a tangible and fantastic response from Sco…
bmascotland.home.blog
November 7, 2025 at 3:15 PM
➡️ ‘We will not sit idle while the Scottish Government attempts to break the deal that they struck with Scottish resident doctors in 2023’
Read the blog from SRDC chair @chrissmith2211.bsky.social which explains the details of the IA ballot 👇
bmascotland.home.blog/2025/10/31/s...
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Read the blog from SRDC chair @chrissmith2211.bsky.social which explains the details of the IA ballot 👇
bmascotland.home.blog/2025/10/31/s...
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➡️Make sure your details are correct to ensure you will be able to have your say in the vote
Check & update your email address, place of work, grade, and postal address here - bmascotland.home.blog/check-and-up...
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Check & update your email address, place of work, grade, and postal address here - bmascotland.home.blog/check-and-up...
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November 7, 2025 at 3:15 PM
➡️Make sure your details are correct to ensure you will be able to have your say in the vote
Check & update your email address, place of work, grade, and postal address here - bmascotland.home.blog/check-and-up...
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Check & update your email address, place of work, grade, and postal address here - bmascotland.home.blog/check-and-up...
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➡️ Register to join one of our two online events
You'll have the chance to hear directly from the SRDC Pay Negotiating team about the ballot & what potential IA will mean for you.
Thurs 13th Nov at 6.30pm
Wed 19th Nov at 6.30pm
Sign up here ⬇️
events.bma.org.uk/srdc-2025-pa...
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You'll have the chance to hear directly from the SRDC Pay Negotiating team about the ballot & what potential IA will mean for you.
Thurs 13th Nov at 6.30pm
Wed 19th Nov at 6.30pm
Sign up here ⬇️
events.bma.org.uk/srdc-2025-pa...
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November 7, 2025 at 3:15 PM
➡️ Register to join one of our two online events
You'll have the chance to hear directly from the SRDC Pay Negotiating team about the ballot & what potential IA will mean for you.
Thurs 13th Nov at 6.30pm
Wed 19th Nov at 6.30pm
Sign up here ⬇️
events.bma.org.uk/srdc-2025-pa...
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You'll have the chance to hear directly from the SRDC Pay Negotiating team about the ballot & what potential IA will mean for you.
Thurs 13th Nov at 6.30pm
Wed 19th Nov at 6.30pm
Sign up here ⬇️
events.bma.org.uk/srdc-2025-pa...
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Heading back home now from the GP conference in Manchester. Good meeting at the MRI afterwards; local members sold on the BMA strategy - they really get the importance of shifting to an organising model and how it gets wins in the workplace and on professional issues. @bma.org.uk
November 7, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Heading back home now from the GP conference in Manchester. Good meeting at the MRI afterwards; local members sold on the BMA strategy - they really get the importance of shifting to an organising model and how it gets wins in the workplace and on professional issues. @bma.org.uk
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“We’re asking to get round the table to talk about a realistic, sustainable and credible offer that works for doctors and also, crucially, works for patients.”
Resident doctors committee chair @fletchjack.bsky.social speaks to Times Radio this morning.
Resident doctors committee chair @fletchjack.bsky.social speaks to Times Radio this morning.
November 9, 2025 at 11:44 AM
“We’re asking to get round the table to talk about a realistic, sustainable and credible offer that works for doctors and also, crucially, works for patients.”
Resident doctors committee chair @fletchjack.bsky.social speaks to Times Radio this morning.
Resident doctors committee chair @fletchjack.bsky.social speaks to Times Radio this morning.
Reposted by Emma Runswick
‼️ ATTENTION – Resident doctors in Scotland
🗓️The strike ballot will open on Friday 14th Nov
Please update your details now to make you are able to have YOUR say
Read the new blog for full details ⬇️
bmascotland.home.blog/2025/10/31/s...
🗓️The strike ballot will open on Friday 14th Nov
Please update your details now to make you are able to have YOUR say
Read the new blog for full details ⬇️
bmascotland.home.blog/2025/10/31/s...
Scottish Residents’ Ballot to open on 14th November
Since the Scottish Resident Doctors Committee (SRDC) announced that we had entered formal dispute with the Scottish Government 3 weeks ago, there has been a tangible and fantastic response from Sco…
bmascotland.home.blog
October 31, 2025 at 1:03 PM
‼️ ATTENTION – Resident doctors in Scotland
🗓️The strike ballot will open on Friday 14th Nov
Please update your details now to make you are able to have YOUR say
Read the new blog for full details ⬇️
bmascotland.home.blog/2025/10/31/s...
🗓️The strike ballot will open on Friday 14th Nov
Please update your details now to make you are able to have YOUR say
Read the new blog for full details ⬇️
bmascotland.home.blog/2025/10/31/s...
Reposted by Emma Runswick
✍️ NEW BLOG
Introducing Joe Payne, the new chair of BMA Scottish medical students committee
Read about SMSC’s key priorities for the year & the most pressing issues facing Scotland’s medical students 👇
bmascotland.home.blog/2025/10/28/i...
Introducing Joe Payne, the new chair of BMA Scottish medical students committee
Read about SMSC’s key priorities for the year & the most pressing issues facing Scotland’s medical students 👇
bmascotland.home.blog/2025/10/28/i...
Introducing the new chair of SMSC
Hello everyone. I’m Joe Payne, and I’m delighted to introduce myself as the new chair of the Scottish medical students committee (SMSC). Originally from Lochgilphead, a small town on Scotland…
bmascotland.home.blog
October 29, 2025 at 11:54 AM
✍️ NEW BLOG
Introducing Joe Payne, the new chair of BMA Scottish medical students committee
Read about SMSC’s key priorities for the year & the most pressing issues facing Scotland’s medical students 👇
bmascotland.home.blog/2025/10/28/i...
Introducing Joe Payne, the new chair of BMA Scottish medical students committee
Read about SMSC’s key priorities for the year & the most pressing issues facing Scotland’s medical students 👇
bmascotland.home.blog/2025/10/28/i...
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The deal for GPs in Scotland will provide:
➡️A package of measures to support areas including workforce & digital infrastructure
➡️The chance to significantly improve services for patients
➡️The opportunity to make working as a GP the rewarding career it should be
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➡️A package of measures to support areas including workforce & digital infrastructure
➡️The chance to significantly improve services for patients
➡️The opportunity to make working as a GP the rewarding career it should be
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October 28, 2025 at 3:51 PM
The deal for GPs in Scotland will provide:
➡️A package of measures to support areas including workforce & digital infrastructure
➡️The chance to significantly improve services for patients
➡️The opportunity to make working as a GP the rewarding career it should be
🧵2/2
➡️A package of measures to support areas including workforce & digital infrastructure
➡️The chance to significantly improve services for patients
➡️The opportunity to make working as a GP the rewarding career it should be
🧵2/2
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‼️ IMPORTANT NEWS for GPs in Scotland
The BMA’s Scottish GP Committee has voted to end the formal dispute over funding restoration & accept a deal with Scottish Gov delivering £250m of direct investment over the next 3 financial years
Read full details 👇
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bmascotland.home.blog/2025/10/28/d...
The BMA’s Scottish GP Committee has voted to end the formal dispute over funding restoration & accept a deal with Scottish Gov delivering £250m of direct investment over the next 3 financial years
Read full details 👇
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bmascotland.home.blog/2025/10/28/d...
Deal to end dispute over funding restoration accepted by BMA Scotland GP committee
Dear All, We are delighted to announce that the BMA’s Scottish GP Committee has voted to accept a deal we negotiated with the Scottish Government to end our formal dispute over funding restoration.…
bmascotland.home.blog
October 28, 2025 at 3:50 PM
‼️ IMPORTANT NEWS for GPs in Scotland
The BMA’s Scottish GP Committee has voted to end the formal dispute over funding restoration & accept a deal with Scottish Gov delivering £250m of direct investment over the next 3 financial years
Read full details 👇
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bmascotland.home.blog/2025/10/28/d...
The BMA’s Scottish GP Committee has voted to end the formal dispute over funding restoration & accept a deal with Scottish Gov delivering £250m of direct investment over the next 3 financial years
Read full details 👇
🧵1/2
bmascotland.home.blog/2025/10/28/d...
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Shocking new figures from the RCN show growing racist abuse against nurses.
We stand in solidarity with affected nurses and colleagues across the NHS, and call for an end to the escalating use of hostile language and anti-migrant rhetoric.
Read more: www.bma.org.uk/news-and-opi...
We stand in solidarity with affected nurses and colleagues across the NHS, and call for an end to the escalating use of hostile language and anti-migrant rhetoric.
Read more: www.bma.org.uk/news-and-opi...
October 27, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Shocking new figures from the RCN show growing racist abuse against nurses.
We stand in solidarity with affected nurses and colleagues across the NHS, and call for an end to the escalating use of hostile language and anti-migrant rhetoric.
Read more: www.bma.org.uk/news-and-opi...
We stand in solidarity with affected nurses and colleagues across the NHS, and call for an end to the escalating use of hostile language and anti-migrant rhetoric.
Read more: www.bma.org.uk/news-and-opi...
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The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.
Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...
1/11
The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.
Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...
1/11
UK’s arm’s length public bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation
Seven in ten Britons say it is important for top scientific institutions to be independent in exclusive new polling.
www.ucl.ac.uk
October 9, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.
Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...
1/11
The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.
Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...
1/11
🏴 Resident Doctors!
Scottish Government are breaking your deal
🟧 A ballot is coming
bmascotland.home.blog/2025/10/10/s...
@chrissmith2211.bsky.social @bmascotland.bsky.social
Scottish Government are breaking your deal
🟧 A ballot is coming
bmascotland.home.blog/2025/10/10/s...
@chrissmith2211.bsky.social @bmascotland.bsky.social
Scottish Resident Doctors to be Balloted for Strike as Scottish Government Breaks Deal
Despite months of negotiations around resident doctors’ pay, it is now unfortunately clear that we have reached a dead end. The Scottish Government appear prepared to – and indeed intend to &…
bmascotland.home.blog
October 10, 2025 at 9:34 AM
🏴 Resident Doctors!
Scottish Government are breaking your deal
🟧 A ballot is coming
bmascotland.home.blog/2025/10/10/s...
@chrissmith2211.bsky.social @bmascotland.bsky.social
Scottish Government are breaking your deal
🟧 A ballot is coming
bmascotland.home.blog/2025/10/10/s...
@chrissmith2211.bsky.social @bmascotland.bsky.social
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🗣️'They are among the most valued and skilled members of our clinical teams'
Read this blog 👇 from consultant radiologist Kate Thomas for SAS Week 2025 which celebrates and supports SAS doctors 🎉
#SASweek25
@bma.org.uk
www.bma.org.uk/news-and-opi...
Read this blog 👇 from consultant radiologist Kate Thomas for SAS Week 2025 which celebrates and supports SAS doctors 🎉
#SASweek25
@bma.org.uk
www.bma.org.uk/news-and-opi...
SAS doctors: the unsung backbone of the NHS
Consultant radiologist Kate Thomas reflects on her experiences working with SAS doctors and the importance of the specialist grade in ensuring career progression and formal recognition
www.bma.org.uk
October 7, 2025 at 1:06 PM
🗣️'They are among the most valued and skilled members of our clinical teams'
Read this blog 👇 from consultant radiologist Kate Thomas for SAS Week 2025 which celebrates and supports SAS doctors 🎉
#SASweek25
@bma.org.uk
www.bma.org.uk/news-and-opi...
Read this blog 👇 from consultant radiologist Kate Thomas for SAS Week 2025 which celebrates and supports SAS doctors 🎉
#SASweek25
@bma.org.uk
www.bma.org.uk/news-and-opi...