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…
Uncategorized GPs in Scotland – please complete this survey as we push for full funding restoration 6 May 2025 We hope across recent days you will have seen, either in the media, or through social media, that we have launched our campaign for full funding restoration for GPs in…
#Residentdoctors… Scottish resident doctor employment and training places survey 29 Apr 2025April 29, 2025 If you’re anything like me (and I hope in this regard you’re not) then 2025 started with real worry about my short-term future in medicine. Unable to secure an interview…
General Practice… Stand with your surgery: new resources to support GPs 24 Apr 2025 As GPs, we know the scale of the challenges our surgeries face. Every day, we struggle to do the very best we can for each and every patient we care…
General Practice… Update from BMA Scotland’s GPC negotiating team 23 Apr 2025April 23, 2025 Given the crisis that GP surgeries are facing up and down the country, it will hopefully be no surprise that the team here at the BMA is extremely busy with…
Pensions Spring pensions update for doctors in Scotland 17 Apr 2025April 17, 2025 My last pensions blog was at the end of 2024. I’ve been holding off in issuing another one in the hope that I could report good news and that everything…
Medical students… Medical students are suffering in an overcrowded system – we need to protect our education 4 Apr 2025 A year and a half ago, when I started my clinical placements as a fourth-year medical student, I was excited. Starting university in 2020 - during the height of the…
General Practice… BMA Scotland GP update: Audit Scotland report, NI rises and Cabinet Secretary meeting 1 Apr 2025 General Practice is currently operating in the most challenging circumstances of a generation. Last week’s Audit Scotland report set out exactly why, in bleak detail. But, at the BMA’s SGPC…
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