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…
covid-19 Scottish Chair on Covid-19 Day of Reflection: “every single NHS worker stood up to be counted, when it counted” 6 Mar 2025 Just as all of our lives changed irrevocably when Covid hit Britain in 2020, so has our job as doctors. Five years ago, as we prepared for the crisis that…
#Residentdoctors Scottish RDC chair update: the BMA is working round the clock to support doctors after MRCP exam disaster 1 Mar 2025 I have rarely been angrier in almost three years as chair of SRDC, than I have been this week. If you’ve not heard about the growing disaster surrounding MRCP Part…
#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…
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