#ScotlandsDoctors… Join the BMA Scottish Race Equality Forum 17 Sep 2025September 18, 2025 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…
#ScotlandsDoctors… LGBTQ+ History Month: Medical school challenges and reflections 28 Feb 2025February 28, 2025 Coming out is hard. As a mature medical student in my fourth and penultimate year I am envious of those fortunate to have a strong support system to do this…
#ScotlandsDoctors… Celebrating SAS doctors: a positive and rewarding path to follow 18 Oct 2024 With specialist, associate specialist and specialty doctors being celebrated during SAS week, I wanted to share my own experience of the role and how my career has developed. There’s no…
#Residentdoctors… Junior no more: Introducing the BMA Scottish Resident Doctors Committee 16 Sep 2024September 16, 2024 The term junior doctor was always an oxymoron. It suggested that the junior doctor was inexperienced, despite the intense training and selection it took to become one. It encompassed a…
#ScotlandsDoctors… Introducing new SGPC Chair Dr Iain Morrison 22 Aug 2024 It is an incredible honour to be elected the new Chair of SGPC. I have genuine optimism, that by working together as a community of active GPs, we can look…
#ScotlandsDoctors… Why doctors need better support after breaks in training 16 Jul 2024 Doctors are human. We get sick. We have babies. We have happy reasons for time away from work, and not so happy reasons for time away from work. Anyone who…
#BMAPeriods… Period products: the next steps… 20 Oct 2022October 26, 2022 On 15th August 2022 the Period Products (Free Provision) (Scotland) Act came into force, giving everyone in Scotland the right to free access period products. This groundbreaking legislation was spearheaded…
#ScotlandsDoctors… Scottish Conference 18 Feb 2022March 4, 2022 I'm really excited to announce that the upcoming BMA Scotland Conference will be in person this year in Edinburgh, which I will be co-chairing alongside Dr Stuart Blake. This year's…
#ScotlandsDoctors… We need more medics from diverse backgrounds 11 Nov 2021November 11, 2021 “What do you want to be?” my science teacher asked me, when I was 13 years old, preparing to pick my subjects. “A doctor,” I replied nervously, because once I…
#ScotlandsDoctors… a new approach to the NHS in Scotland is a necessity… 10 May 2021 That’s another election over then. It does sometimes feel like we are always having one, but we do now know who our new Scottish government is. Election fatigue is however…
#ScotlandsDoctors… Lockdown: One Year On… 23 Mar 2021 A year ago today, as the reality of wave one of the Covid pandemic was fast dawning on us, I was asked to appear on a live TV news show…
#ScotlandsDoctors… International Women’s Day: One Year On… 8 Mar 2021March 8, 2021 On 8 March 2020 I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to chair the Women in Medicine symposium, run by BMA Scotland’s amazing membership engagement team, and held in…
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