International Women's Day… IWD2025: Accelerating Action for Gender Equality in BMA Scotland 8 Mar 2025March 7, 2025 This International Women’s Day, we are called to Accelerate Action—to move beyond simply acknowledging gender inequality and to actively implement the strategies that drive real progress. For the BMA, as…
International Women's Day… IWD2025: My experience shows why women need better access to healthcare 8 Mar 2025March 7, 2025 As IWD approaches it caused me to reflect on one of my own recent experiences and how women may face challenges in accessing healthcare. As a woman patient who consulted…
International Women's Day… IWD2025: We need to advance and celebrate women’s equality both in the UK and worldwide 8 Mar 2025March 7, 2025 Professor Heather Cox Richardson, historian at the Boston College writes compellingly about the misogyny used by the current Trump administration “in the attacks on American democracy”. She explains that the…
#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…
Uncategorized LGBTQ+ History Month: My journey shows positive change is not just possible, but inevitable 13 Feb 2025 In 1996, as I stepped into my medical career in Scotland, I carried not only the weight of my new responsibilities as a ‘Junior Doctor’ but also the burden of…
Uncategorized SAS Doctors in Scotland vote to accept pay offer 29 Jan 2025 Over the last 2 weeks SAS doctors across Scotland have been voting on the Scottish Government’s pay offer for 2024/25. The power has been firmly in your hands in determining…
#Residentdoctors… SRDC end-of-year report and look ahead to 2025 22 Jan 2025January 22, 2025 2025 is well and truly upon us, so I wanted to wish everyone an (admittedly belated) Happy New Year, and I hope that everyone managed to get some time off…
Consultants… BMA Scotland chair’s New Year message: Scotland’s NHS will struggle to see out another New Year without ‘transformative’ reforms 31 Dec 2024 It has become common for well-known dictionary brands to name a “word of the year”. When it comes to the NHS, the word I would have to choose for 2024…
Uncategorized SAS doctors in Scotland: Pay offer webinar 23 Dec 2024 As I hope you will be aware, in the new year a consultative vote will open on the pay offer the Scottish Government has provided for SAS doctors. If you…
Uncategorized Doctors in Scotland: have your say on winter pressures 3 Dec 2024December 3, 2024 With December now officially underway, I think we can all agree the Christmas season has begun. We no longer have to dodge festive songs or complain about shop displays being…
Medical students… Introducing the new chair of SMSC 18 Nov 2024November 19, 2024 We live in a time where being a medical student is exciting, with the advancements in medical technology and knowledge constantly changing. However, the uncertainty that awaits us as future…
Uncategorized Scottish LMC Conference – Scottish Government letters 7 Nov 2024 After every SLMC conference, SGPC considers carefully how to take forward the policies voted for by LMC representatives on behalf of the profession. Following last year’s conference, we wrote to…
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