General Practice… Christmas message for GPs in Scotland: Cautious optimism for 2026 23 Dec 2025 Dear All, It is a good time to reflect upon the year past. With the amount that has gone on it is little wonder it has passed so quickly. For…
General Practice… SGPC formal dispute update: Scottish Government offer received, negotiations to begin 2 Oct 2025October 2, 2025 As you will be aware we have been in formal dispute with the Scottish Government since June of this year. We have had multiple meetings with Government since and had anticipated…
General Practice… Spreading the word on our fight for full funding restoration 12 Sep 2025 This summer, your BMA Scotland GP leadership team took to the road with a series of events designed to put the future of general practice at the centre of conversation…
General Practice… BMA Scotland summer roadshows for GPs: find out the dispute latest and help shape the campaign for full funding restoration 4 Aug 2025August 4, 2025 The weather has been very variable this summer, much like the fortunes of general practice over the years. Hopefully you are managing to squeeze in some holiday and rest, given…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
General Practice Scottish GP update: Employers’ NIC latest 25 Feb 2025 Ever since the Autumn Budget was announced we have been in discussion and lobbying for full reimbursement of Employer's NIC for practices. Unfortunately, the situation looks far from ideal come…
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