General Practice… GP Workload: Coping with increasing demand and chronic underfunding 28 Mar 2024March 28, 2024 Imagine you have a local supermarket. You have been going there for years, your shopping list is getting longer every month, and frankly the bill is getting pretty high. So,…
General Practice GPs and CPD: we are not investing anything like sufficiently in maintaining and developing the skills of our GPs 22 Mar 2024 Medicine has changed a lot since I qualified in 1987. I think it is a real challenge for GPs to keep up to date with so much changing, having to…
General Practice Scottish GPs -Chair’s end of year message 20 Dec 2023December 20, 2023 As we approach the end of 2023 it seems timely to reflect on what progress has been made in general practice. We have come through the pandemic, and now life…
General Practice SLMC2023: Dr Andrew Buist speech 1 Dec 2023December 1, 2023 Chair of SGPC Dr Andrew Buist Speech to SLMC Conference 2023 Good morning conference. Conference this is my 6th and final SLMC conference as Chair of SGPC. It has been…
General Practice… Pivotal moment-and we need views from all GPs 2 Nov 2023November 2, 2023 We are, I believe, at a pivotal moment for the future of GPs in Scotland. And I mean that in its widest sense and across all GPs – whether you…
General Practice… Making GP Partnership the “fulfilling job we know it can be once again” 16 Oct 2023October 16, 2023 Our jobs are getting harder and harder. For a long time now we have warned about the perilous state of general practice in Scotland. And it’s in that context that…
General Practice… GP uplift details announced: BMA Scotland response 25 Sep 2023September 25, 2023 I don’t think I need to tell you as GPs the current challenges the profession faces. We have been warning for some time of how demand is outstripping our capacity,…
General Practice Pay survey update for GPs 29 Aug 2023 I want to start by thanking all of you who took the time to fill in our pay survey. This morning we released the headline results – and you can…
Consultants… Chair’s update: Valuing doctors 29 Aug 2023 There are two separate elements to my blog today – but both speak to how doctors are valued and treated in our NHS in Scotland. Much of the work I…
General Practice All is not well in general practice 14 Aug 2023 For most of us that title will seem to be an obvious statement, so to back it up with some stats we conducted a survey of GPs in July, and…
General Practice… GPs – we need your views on pay uplift… 21 Jul 2023July 21, 2023 The Scottish government recently announced a 6% uplift in pay for all doctors in Scotland – except junior doctors who are currently going through separate negotiations – backdated to April.…
ARM… Chair update: ARM 2023 – With a little help from my friends 12 Jul 2023July 12, 2023 Last week, I was at the Liverpool conference centre for the BMA’s ARM (Annual Representatives’ Meeting) where, for three days, doctors across our ‘fab four’ nations debated matters of importance…
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