Al Miles
@al-miles.bsky.social
GP Partner @ Speyside Medical Group
Deputy Chair of BMA Scottish General Practitioner's Committee
Deputy Chair of BMA Scottish General Practitioner's Committee
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🚨 NEW BLOG
‘Please don’t let us burnout’
✍️ Dr Sharon Hamilton writes from personal experience on the ‘relentless’ pressures GPs are facing - and why full funding restoration is needed
#standwithyoursurgery
Read 👇
bmascotland.home.blog/2025/06/19/p...
‘Please don’t let us burnout’
✍️ Dr Sharon Hamilton writes from personal experience on the ‘relentless’ pressures GPs are facing - and why full funding restoration is needed
#standwithyoursurgery
Read 👇
bmascotland.home.blog/2025/06/19/p...
Stand with your surgery: Please don’t let us burn out
I am a GP who genuinely loves her job. It is a challenging but wonderfully rewarding vocation. The team I work with are driven by an incredible desire to do their best for their patients. But to be…
bmascotland.home.blog
June 19, 2025 at 11:18 AM
🚨 NEW BLOG
‘Please don’t let us burnout’
✍️ Dr Sharon Hamilton writes from personal experience on the ‘relentless’ pressures GPs are facing - and why full funding restoration is needed
#standwithyoursurgery
Read 👇
bmascotland.home.blog/2025/06/19/p...
‘Please don’t let us burnout’
✍️ Dr Sharon Hamilton writes from personal experience on the ‘relentless’ pressures GPs are facing - and why full funding restoration is needed
#standwithyoursurgery
Read 👇
bmascotland.home.blog/2025/06/19/p...
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🚨📽️ NEW STAND WITH YOUR SURGERY VIDEO!
🏴Find out about the difference our ask for #fullfundingrestoration would make for GPs and patients across Scotland.
👀 Have a watch below....
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🏴Find out about the difference our ask for #fullfundingrestoration would make for GPs and patients across Scotland.
👀 Have a watch below....
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June 5, 2025 at 1:15 PM
🚨📽️ NEW STAND WITH YOUR SURGERY VIDEO!
🏴Find out about the difference our ask for #fullfundingrestoration would make for GPs and patients across Scotland.
👀 Have a watch below....
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🏴Find out about the difference our ask for #fullfundingrestoration would make for GPs and patients across Scotland.
👀 Have a watch below....
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All governments are weak in the face of powerful lobbying. Big food is big corporation = psychopathic. Probably good people working in these companies, but personal morality eaten by corporate greed.
All governments are weak in the face of powerful lobbying. Big food is big corporation = psychopathic. Probably good people working in these companies, but personal morality eaten by corporate greed.
UK government dropped health push after lobbying by ultra-processed food firms
Exclusive: Guardian investigation reveals guidance for retailers in England changed after campaign by global food firms
www.theguardian.com
May 17, 2025 at 7:43 PM
www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...
All governments are weak in the face of powerful lobbying. Big food is big corporation = psychopathic. Probably good people working in these companies, but personal morality eaten by corporate greed.
All governments are weak in the face of powerful lobbying. Big food is big corporation = psychopathic. Probably good people working in these companies, but personal morality eaten by corporate greed.
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📣'Across the four nations of the UK, general practice is crumbling'
📄Read this new report which spells out why it is so important that GPs are properly valued 👇
📄Read this new report which spells out why it is so important that GPs are properly valued 👇
📣 The Value of a GP
We've made it very clear: general practice is vital to a healthy NHS.
This new BMA report lays out the evidence – economic, clinical, and human – that shows why GPs are essential. Continuity of care is the remedy.
Read here 👉 cdn.intelligencebank.com/eu/share/qMb...
We've made it very clear: general practice is vital to a healthy NHS.
This new BMA report lays out the evidence – economic, clinical, and human – that shows why GPs are essential. Continuity of care is the remedy.
Read here 👉 cdn.intelligencebank.com/eu/share/qMb...
May 8, 2025 at 1:59 PM
📣'Across the four nations of the UK, general practice is crumbling'
📄Read this new report which spells out why it is so important that GPs are properly valued 👇
📄Read this new report which spells out why it is so important that GPs are properly valued 👇
UK LMC conference kicks off with a 4 nation address by GPC UK Chair Katie Bramall, describing the value of a GP, and the funding needed to support GPs and save the NHS. 👏👏👏
May 8, 2025 at 10:32 AM
UK LMC conference kicks off with a 4 nation address by GPC UK Chair Katie Bramall, describing the value of a GP, and the funding needed to support GPs and save the NHS. 👏👏👏
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🗣️ ‘This report shines a light on the harsh reality that many ethnic minority doctors in Scotland are still experiencing racism'
@sajidfarid.bsky.social on BMA Scotland survey which found 2/3rds have experienced or witnessed incidents in the workplace
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bmascotland.home.blog/2025/02/20/r...
@sajidfarid.bsky.social on BMA Scotland survey which found 2/3rds have experienced or witnessed incidents in the workplace
Read ⬇️
bmascotland.home.blog/2025/02/20/r...
Report of BMA Scotland’s race equality in medicine survey
FULL REPORT ON THE SURVEY: Scottish Race Equality Forum reportDownload FOREWARD FROM THE REPORT: Racism and inequality are deeply entrenched issues in our society that have a harmful impact in our …
bmascotland.home.blog
February 20, 2025 at 2:15 PM
🗣️ ‘This report shines a light on the harsh reality that many ethnic minority doctors in Scotland are still experiencing racism'
@sajidfarid.bsky.social on BMA Scotland survey which found 2/3rds have experienced or witnessed incidents in the workplace
Read ⬇️
bmascotland.home.blog/2025/02/20/r...
@sajidfarid.bsky.social on BMA Scotland survey which found 2/3rds have experienced or witnessed incidents in the workplace
Read ⬇️
bmascotland.home.blog/2025/02/20/r...
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Important issue covered by @thescotsmanpaper.bsky.social
today ⬇️
today ⬇️
EXC: Locum GPs say they are 'going unemployed' in Scotland despite frontline NHS crisis
A survey found one locum had even resorted to driving an Uber to help cover school fees:
www.scotsman.com/news/politic...
A survey found one locum had even resorted to driving an Uber to help cover school fees:
www.scotsman.com/news/politic...
Locum GPs say they are 'going unemployed' in Scotland despite frontline NHS crisis
A survey found one locum had even resorted to driving an Uber
www.scotsman.com
February 6, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Important issue covered by @thescotsmanpaper.bsky.social
today ⬇️
today ⬇️
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✍️ Read the New Year message from BMA Scotland
chair Dr Iain Kennedy, including the findings from our survey on winter pressures.
👉99% of doctors expressed concerns about the impact of increased pressures on the NHS over winter.
Read here 👇
bmascotland.home.blog/2024/12/31/b...
BMA Scotland chair’s New Year message: Scotland’s NHS will struggle to see out another New Year without ‘transformative’ reforms
It has become common for well-known dictionary brands to name a “word of the year”. When it comes to the NHS, the word I would have to choose for 2024 is ‘perma-crisis’. It sums up the consistent p…
bmascotland.home.blog
January 7, 2025 at 4:04 PM
✍️ Read the New Year message from BMA Scotland
chair Dr Iain Kennedy, including the findings from our survey on winter pressures.
👉99% of doctors expressed concerns about the impact of increased pressures on the NHS over winter.
Read here 👇
bmascotland.home.blog/2024/12/31/b...