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Here for Grimsby Town, cricket, golf and a bit of news. Work in health related comms public affairs and policy in Scotland
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‼️IMPORTANT UPDATE – RESIDENT DRS IN SCOTLAND

🗣️‘This is a flagrant breach of the deal…’

The Scottish Gov has announced it is imposing a pay lift for resident doctors

Read the full response from SRDC chair @chrissmith2211.bsky.social
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Resident Doctor Pay Imposition: Another Promise Broken by The Scottish Government
On Tuesday 25th November, like many of you I got a letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Neil Gray. And, like many of you, I was outraged by the news that, instead of negotiating with resid…
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November 26, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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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

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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…
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November 14, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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🚨RESIDENT DOCTORS IN SCOTLAND

Ahead of the ballot for IA opening on Friday, read the latest update from SRDC deputy chair Dr Lucas O’Donnell on:

➡️ Why the ballot is taking place
➡️ Key dates to remember
➡️ Next steps & what you can do to help

Link 👇

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Preparing for the Scottish resident doctor strike ballot
You’ll no doubt be receiving a flurry of emails and texts from the BMA over the next few weeks, as the industrial action ballot for resident doctors in Scotland begins this Friday – 14th Nove…
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November 12, 2025 at 2:38 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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‼️ 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 ⬇️

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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…
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October 31, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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✍️ 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 👇

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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…
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October 29, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Important announcement for GPs in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 below - all the details in the blog from @drimchairsgpc.bsky.social and the negs team ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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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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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.…
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October 28, 2025 at 3:56 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 &…
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October 10, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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📣Consultant & SAS doctors in Scotland

⏰Time is running out to complete our survey - it will take just 5 mins to have your say on:

➡️ Work-life balance
➡️ Wellbeing & morale
➡️ Plans to continue working in NHS
➡️ Safety of NHS services

Link 👇

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BMA Scotland Consultant and SAS doctor wellbeing survey 2025
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September 30, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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🚨UPDATE: GPs in Scotland

Read this important update for the latest on the SGPC formal dispute, with negotiations set to begin

Link 👇👇

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SGPC formal dispute update: Scottish Government offer received, negotiations to begin
As you will be aware we have been in formal dispute with the Scottish Government since June of this year. We have had multiple meetings with Government since and had anticipated an offer document t…
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October 2, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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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

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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
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October 7, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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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...
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Scots BMA chief issues bleak prognosis 👉 www.heraldscotland.com/news...
September 29, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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📣 NEW BLOG

‘We want to create workplaces & learning environments where ethnic minority doctors and students are empowered to speak up and to be heard’

@sajidfarid.bsky.social on the BMA's Scottish Race Equality Forum

Read more & find out how to be involved 👇

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Join the BMA Scottish Race Equality Forum
As I complete my time as Chair of the Scottish Race Equality Forum, I want to share both a reflection and an invitation. SREF has always been more than a committee. It was created by BMA Scotland i…
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September 18, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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📣NEW BLOG

‘An opportunity not only to keep GPs informed of ongoing negotiations with the Scottish Government but, crucially, to hear their lived experiences from the front line’

SGPC deputy chair Dr Chris Black looks back at the recent GP roadshows 👇

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Spreading the word on our fight for full funding restoration
This summer, your BMA Scotland GP leadership team took to the road with a series of events designed to put the future of general practice at the centre of conversation with colleagues across Scotla…
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September 12, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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📣NEW: Pay update for consultant & SAS doctors

✍️ ‘We will give our negotiations some further time to run…however this is a time limited process that must proceed at speed’

Read👇for the pay negs latest & steps you can take to support this work

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Consultant and SAS doctor pay update: “fragile situation” as talks see slight improvement
If you haven’t caught up with our last update and the very disappointing behaviour of the Scottish Government in our pay negotiations, we would suggest doing so here.  To recap, in a very much abri…
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June 23, 2025 at 3:33 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…
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June 13, 2025 at 3:35 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

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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.
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June 11, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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And read all the details about our call for £290m to fill the funding gap that has developed since 2008 and enable GPs to do more for their patients here.

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General practice must be saved now for the survival of the NHS, doctors warn
Press release from BMA Scotland
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June 5, 2025 at 1:17 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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📣REMINDER: Consultant and SAS doctors in Scotland

We’re looking for your views on pay & the DDRB recommendations

Please fill in this short survey to help determine the next steps we take

Read more & link to survey 👇

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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…
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May 30, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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‼️Time is running out to have your say on pensions

⏳Our NHS Scotland pensions feedback portal will be closing soon

📋Please complete the short form so we can take your experiences of pensions administration to SPPA and Scot Gov

Link and more info 👇

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Pensions update for doctors in Scotland: we need your feedback
In my last blog I mentioned the two statements currently being issued for members affected by the McCloud Remedy (RPSS and ABS-RSS).  Slow progress is being made and as of yet we have not rece…
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May 29, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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Fill in our pay survey, let us know your feelings on the DDRB recommendations and how you think we should proceed.

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We’ll use the results of this survey to guide our approach and to do all we can to deliver acceptable pay awards for all senior doctors.
BMA Scotland Consultant and SAS doctor pay survey 2025
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May 26, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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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…
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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

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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…
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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 👇👇

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BMA Scotland responds to DDRB recommendations - BMA media centre - BMA
Press release from BMA Scotland
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May 22, 2025 at 3:20 PM