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Dr Iain Kennedy
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Highland Doctor. Chair of The BMA Scottish Council @the-bma.bsky.social
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📢 Medical students in Scotland

Have your say on student intake numbers and how it's affected your university experience by taking a few minutes to complete our latest survey 👇

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November 5, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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RESIDENT DOCTORS IN SCOTLAND

🗓️The ballot for IA will open one week today

➡️Here’s a reminder of some important steps you can take now

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November 7, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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‼️IMPORTANT UPDATE – RESIDENT DOCTORS IN SCOTLAND

BMA’s Scottish Resident Doctor Committee has voted to enter into formal dispute with the Scottish Gov & plans to ballot members on strike action in the coming weeks

SRDC chair Dr Chris Smith explains why ⬇️

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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 11:15 AM
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📣ICYMI 📰

BMA Scotland chair @driainkennedy.bsky.social spoke to
@neilmackay.bsky.social for an in-depth look at the issues facing the NHS 👇

Full story here (paywall💷)
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2550016...
Scots BMA chief issues bleak prognosis 👉 www.heraldscotland.com/news...
September 29, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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✈️ Calling all GPs & GP trainees in Scotland!
I’m conducting a short anonymous survey on how GPs handle aviation-related consultations. Takes 5 mins & closes 07/09/25.

🔗 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Please complete the survey & kindly share with GP and GP trainees across Scotland 🙏
Aviation Medicine Awareness Among GPs in Scotland
We are conducting a short, anonymous survey to explore how General Practitioners (GPs) in Scotland approach aviation medicine in clinical practice. This includes your experience advising patients abou...
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August 24, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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🗣️“These figures should do very little to reassure anyone that the crisis in general practice is anywhere near being fixed”

SGPC chair @drimchairsgpc.bsky.social comments on the latest GP workforce data published today

Read the full response 👇👇

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www.bma.org.uk/bma-media-ce...
Response to General Practice Workforce Survey - BMA media centre - BMA
Press release from BMA Scotland 
www.bma.org.uk
August 26, 2025 at 2:30 PM
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Resident doctors’ leader @chrissmith2211.bsky.social

🗣️ “The Scottish Government knows that our members are resolute and united: now is their chance to lead reform and avoid the mistakes made by Whitehall so far in under-estimating how powerful that is.”

🩺 Read more ⬇️⬇️⬇️ @bmascotland.bsky.social
July 17, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Today marks 20 years since the 7/7 bombings struck London.

On that day, 52 people were killed, with many more injured.

We remember all those who lost their lives and were – and continue to be – impacted by the events of that day.
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July 7, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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NHS is 'dying before our eyes', warns doctors' union
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NHS is 'dying before our eyes', warns doctors' union
BMA Scotland sounded the alarm after a new poll revealed the extent of private medical care
www.scotsman.com
June 24, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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🗣️'Our message to all politicians in the coming months as the Scottish Parliament election approaches is that it is not too late to save the NHS – but we cannot afford to wait another five years for the necessary action.'

@driainkennedy.bsky.social comments in @holyroodmag.bsky.social

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June 17, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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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 👇

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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
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SGPC chair @drimchairsgpc.bsky.social speaks to ITV Representing Border at the Scottish Parliament after taking part in an evidence session held by @parliament.scot Public Audit Committee in which he outlined the challenges being faced by GPs 👇
June 18, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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📻‘The result of our survey…showed us GPs are absolutely exhausted… We have not enough resource to meet the needs of our patients and services are really suffering’

SGPC chair @drimchairsgpc.bsky.social on BBC's The Sunday Show

Listen back 👇 from 1:20:30

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The Sunday Show - 15/06/2025 - BBC Sounds
News, discussion and interviews from politics and beyond.
www.bbc.co.uk
June 16, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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We are deeply saddened by the tragic plane crash in Ahmedabad. On behalf of the BMA @drphilbanfield.bsky.social has written to the Indian Medical Association to express our condolences and support at this difficult time.
Our thoughts are with the families, students, doctors, and all those affected.
June 12, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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🚨NEW BLOG

‘It’s more shocking than we imagined’

SRDC chair @chrissmith2211.bsky.social takes an in-depth look at the themes which emerged in the BMA Scotland survey on resident doctor unemployment

Read here 👇

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‘The future feels quite bleak’: Survey reveals unemployment concerns of resident doctors
We’d all heard the anecdotes and the rumours: whole cohorts of FY2s not getting into training. Half a rota emigrating to Australia in August. Hundreds of applicants per Clinical Fellow role, includ…
bmascotland.home.blog
June 13, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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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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June 5, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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🗣️'The emerging medical unemployment crisis in Scotland...is by extension a crisis for our NHS and patients'

@chrissmith2211.bsky.social comments on a new BMA Scotland survey which found 7 in 10 resident doctors are concerned about unemployment

Full story 👇

www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottis...
Highly skilled doctors leave Scotland in massive brain drain over lack of jobs
A new BMA Scotland survey has found that 7 in 10 resident doctors are concerned about unemployment from August.
www.dailyrecord.co.uk
June 11, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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🚨NEW BLOG: Scottish Consultant & SAS doctors

Dr Sine Steele & Dr Alan Robertson respond to the DDRB recommendations in their latest blog

🗣️Only by properly investing in the workforce can we hope to begin solving this senior medical staffing crisis

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DDRB recommendations: Scottish consultant and SAS committee reaction
While it may seem a very short time ago that last year’s pay rises started appearing in your payslip, we are now entering back into the whole process for 2025/26.  Central to how we procced wi…
bmascotland.home.blog
May 26, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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📣 ‘The Scottish Resident Doctor Committee in Scotland is clear: Full Pay Restoration is a principle that we will not abandon’

SRDC chair @chrissmith2211.bsky.social responds to the DDRB pay recommendation

Read more 👇

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Pay Restoration: The Scottish Government must do better than the same-old DDRB
I’ll cut to the chase: 4% and a paltry cash sum would be nowhere near good enough for Scottish resident doctors.  The DDRB has recommended that our resident doctor colleagues in England, Wales…
bmascotland.home.blog
May 23, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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🗣️ ‘Investing sufficiently and strongly in the medical workforce both now and for the future is as vital as it has ever been’

Chair @driainkennedy.bsky.social comments on the DDRB pay award recommendation today

Read the full response 👇👇

www.bma.org.uk/bma-media-ce...
BMA Scotland responds to DDRB recommendations - BMA media centre - BMA
Press release from BMA Scotland
www.bma.org.uk
May 22, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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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 👇
📣 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...
May 8, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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GP unemployment is having a devastating impact on GPs and patients.

Today at #UKLMC2025 we gathered to call for urgent action to end this crisis.

We need the additional funding to get GPs into work NOW.
May 8, 2025 at 1:57 PM
GPs: #UKLMC2025 @BMA_GP

Please consider donating to @TheCameronFund

Helping GPs and their families in times of need - it could be you or me.

Dr Rob Barnett has made it easy for you ⬇️⬇️⬇️
May 8, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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📣 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...
May 8, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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❗NEW BLOG: Pensions update

With statements now going out, an update on issues including:
👉Delays to RPSS
👉Inaccuracies in ABS-RSS
👉Concerns about the level of service being provided by the SPPA
👉Practitioner contributions

Read the blog here 👇

bmascotland.home.blog/2025/04/17/s...
Spring pensions update for doctors in Scotland
My last pensions blog was at the end of 2024.  I’ve been holding off in issuing another one in the hope that I could report good news and that everything was sorted with the McCloud Remedy but sadl…
bmascotland.home.blog
April 17, 2025 at 2:30 PM