General Practice… Enough is enough: Scottish GPs move into dispute with the Scottish Government 26 Jun 2025June 26, 2025 General Practice continues to face significant challenges in delivering the core services we so dearly want to protect for our patients. The ridiculous paradox of GP Partners having to look at what…
ARM ARM 2025 – Full Scottish Chair’s Speech 24 Jun 2025 Full text of Dr Iain Kennedy's speech to the ARM 2025: RB – thank you, once again, for allowing me to update you on the past year for the BMA…
ARM Justice, dignity, and the duty of care that governments’ owe: why we need to treat long Covid as an occupational disease 24 Jun 2025 Yesterday at the BMA's ARM in Liverpool, Deputy Scottish Council Chair Dr Nora Murray-Cavanagh successfully proposed a motion on treating Long Covid as an occupational disease. You can find her…
Consultants Consultant and SAS doctor pay update: “fragile situation” as talks see slight improvement 23 Jun 2025 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,…
General Practice Stand with your surgery: Please don’t let us burn out 19 Jun 2025June 19, 2025 I am a GP who genuinely loves her job. It is a challenging but wonderfully rewarding vocation. The team I work with are driven by an incredible desire to do…
Residentdoctors… ‘The future feels quite bleak’: Survey reveals unemployment concerns of resident doctors 13 Jun 2025 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…
Uncategorized Breach of trust will undermine faith of senior doctors in Scottish Government 12 Jun 2025June 12, 2025 It is with considerable anger and frustration that we write to update you on our discussions on pay with the Scottish Government. These began yesterday morning, when we jointly met…
Consultants… DDRB recommendations: Scottish consultant and SAS committee reaction 26 May 2025May 27, 2025 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. …
General Practice… DDRB recommendations: Scottish GP Committee reaction 23 May 2025May 23, 2025 I promise, one day I will write a blog that is purely upbeat and optimistic. However, and with regret, not today. That is because yesterday the Review Body on Doctors’…
Uncategorized Pay Restoration: The Scottish Government must do better than the same-old DDRB 22 May 2025 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…
SSAS SAS doctors update in Scotland – progression and pay vital given gaps in workforce 12 May 2025May 12, 2025 Hello Everyone, As we are now a full month into the new financial year, I thought I would update you all on the work your SAS committee is doing currently.…
Pensions Pensions update for doctors in Scotland: we need your feedback 8 May 2025May 8, 2025 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…
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