#JnrDocRights… Rotas In Advance: New Joint Guidance to Improve Doctors’ Working Lives 14 Mar 2024September 19, 2024 2024 is going to be an important year for improving the workplace rights of doctors in Scotland. With the joint agreement reached last year, we will be entering into discussions…
#JnrDocRights… Securing our rights: Our contract, our priorities 19 Jan 2024September 19, 2024 Happy New Year, doctors in Scotland. After an unprecedented 2023, in which we negotiated the first steps to both restoring our pay and ensuring pay erosion is banished for good,…
#JnrDocRights… Junior doctor consultative vote Q&A 5 Jun 2023 How does 7.5% for 22/23 plus 6.5% for 23/24 equal 14.5%? The 14.5% headline figure is an aggregate of the two sets of increases and is in comparison to the…
#JnrDocRights… Junior doctors: consultative vote dates announced. 30 May 2023 Last week, the Scottish Government offered junior doctors in Scotland a 14.5% pay uplift for the years 2022 – 2024, based on a 6.5% uplift this year and an additional…
#JnrDocRights… Junior doctors: Glasgow Rally, Seamus Crumley speech 3 Apr 2023 "Everyone, thank you for coming today. You cannot know how much your support means. We know why we are here today. For over a decade now, Junior Doctors have seen our pay stagnate…
#JnrDocRights… Juniors update: Scottish government meeting and pay 13 Oct 2022 It has been a busy first week in my role as chair of the BMA's Scottish Junior Doctors’ Committee (SJDC). It was the first meeting of the session last week…
#JnrDocRights… Survey results give a bleak outlook… 4 Oct 2022October 4, 2022 I’m not even sure I know what to say with this. And I’m rarely one to struggle for words. But our most recent survey results are massively concerning and paint…
#JnrDocRights… Junior doctors cannot continue to prop up a crumbling system 30 Sep 2022 As your new chair elect of the BMA’s Scottish Junior Doctors Committee – due to take over at the first committee meeting of the year next Wednesday, October 5 –…
#JnrDocRights… Junior doc update: Survey launch, pay latest, monitoring and everything else! 14 Sep 2022September 14, 2022 It’s been nearly a year since I became Chair of SJDC. It’s also very nearly been a year since we published our wellbeing document and which was shortly followed by…
#JnrDocRights… August changeover: less than three weeks to go 15 Jul 2022July 14, 2022 Thank you to all of you who have so far completed our rota form to tell us what’s happening with your rota. If you haven’t yet you can still fill…
#JnrDocRights… The system is breaking us 21 Apr 2022 There are some things that will always bring dread when you work in A&E: bank holidays, full moons, good (‘taps aff’) weather, and if it’s an Old Firm derby day.…
#JnrDocRights… Junior doctor rota survey update 31 Jan 2022January 31, 2022 I’ll be honest, when we were launching our latest snap survey, I thought I knew what results we were expecting. This was a mechanism to help demonstrate and quantify just…