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…
Safe Staffing Working in A&E: Apologies a “routine part” of interactions with patients 28 Mar 2025March 28, 2025 Most of the time when people learn that I’m an A&E doctor they either follow up with questions about the weirdest things I’ve seen, or more commonly with comments about…
Uncategorized Resident doctors in Scotland: Time to redouble our efforts to achieve our goal of full pay restoration 18 Mar 2025April 23, 2025 If you are a resident doctor in Scotland reading this blog, you will have likely seen our new posters, which we are sharing in doctors’ areas across Scotland. If you…
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…
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