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Resident Doctor Pay Imposition: Another Promise Broken by The Scottish Government On Tuesday 25th November, like many of you I got a letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Neil Gray. And, like many of you, I was outraged by the news that, instead of negotiating with resid…

‼️IMPORTANT UPDATE – RESIDENT DRS IN SCOTLAND

🗣️‘This is a flagrant breach of the deal…’

The Scottish Gov has announced it is imposing a pay lift for resident doctors

Read the full response from SRDC chair @chrissmith2211.bsky.social
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Scottish resident doctor ballot opens: vote yes and vote early Today is a significant moment for resident doctors in Scotland as our ballot for strike action opens. It is a time for us to show again that we are united, and prepared to act to protect the future…

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🗣️‘Paying doctors what we are worth, is a key part of restoring our NHS to something we can all be proud of’

SRDC chair @chrissmith2211.bsky.social on the need to vote yes and vote early in the IA ballot for resident doctors in Scotland

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Preparing for the Scottish resident doctor strike ballot You’ll no doubt be receiving a flurry of emails and texts from the BMA over the next few weeks, as the industrial action ballot for resident doctors in Scotland begins this Friday – 14th Nove…

🚨RESIDENT DOCTORS IN SCOTLAND

Ahead of the ballot for IA opening on Friday, read the latest update from SRDC deputy chair Dr Lucas O’Donnell on:

➡️ Why the ballot is taking place
➡️ Key dates to remember
➡️ Next steps & what you can do to help

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RESIDENT DOCTORS IN SCOTLAND

🗓️The ballot for IA will open one week today

➡️Here’s a reminder of some important steps you can take now

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Scottish Residents’ Ballot to open on 14th November Since the Scottish Resident Doctors Committee (SRDC) announced that we had entered formal dispute with the Scottish Government 3 weeks ago, there has been a tangible and fantastic response from Sco…

‼️ ATTENTION – Resident doctors in Scotland

🗓️The strike ballot will open on Friday 14th Nov

Please update your details now to make you are able to have YOUR say

Read the new blog for full details ⬇️

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Introducing the new chair of SMSC Hello everyone. I’m Joe Payne, and I’m delighted to introduce myself as the new chair of the Scottish medical students committee (SMSC). Originally from Lochgilphead, a small town on Scotland…

✍️ NEW BLOG

Introducing Joe Payne, the new chair of BMA Scottish medical students committee

Read about SMSC’s key priorities for the year & the most pressing issues facing Scotland’s medical students 👇

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Important announcement for GPs in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 below - all the details in the blog from @drimchairsgpc.bsky.social and the negs team ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Scottish Resident Doctors to be Balloted for Strike as Scottish Government Breaks Deal Despite months of negotiations around resident doctors’ pay, it is now unfortunately clear that we have reached a dead end. The Scottish Government appear prepared to – and indeed intend to &…

‼️IMPORTANT UPDATE – RESIDENT DOCTORS IN SCOTLAND

BMA’s Scottish Resident Doctor Committee has voted to enter into formal dispute with the Scottish Gov & plans to ballot members on strike action in the coming weeks

SRDC chair Dr Chris Smith explains why ⬇️

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BMA Scotland Consultant and SAS doctor wellbeing survey 2025 Take this survey powered by surveymonkey.com. Create your own surveys for free.

📣Consultant & SAS doctors in Scotland

⏰Time is running out to complete our survey - it will take just 5 mins to have your say on:

➡️ Work-life balance
➡️ Wellbeing & morale
➡️ Plans to continue working in NHS
➡️ Safety of NHS services

Link 👇

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SGPC formal dispute update: Scottish Government offer received, negotiations to begin 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 an offer document t…

🚨UPDATE: GPs in Scotland

Read this important update for the latest on the SGPC formal dispute, with negotiations set to begin

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SAS doctors: the unsung backbone of the NHS Consultant radiologist Kate Thomas reflects on her experiences working with SAS doctors and the importance of the specialist grade in ensuring career progression and formal recognition

🗣️'They are among the most valued and skilled members of our clinical teams'

Read this blog 👇 from consultant radiologist Kate Thomas for SAS Week 2025 which celebrates and supports SAS doctors 🎉

#SASweek25

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📣ICYMI 📰

BMA Scotland chair @driainkennedy.bsky.social spoke to
@neilmackay.bsky.social for an in-depth look at the issues facing the NHS 👇

Full story here (paywall💷)
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Join the BMA Scottish Race Equality Forum As I complete my time as Chair of the Scottish Race Equality Forum, I want to share both a reflection and an invitation. SREF has always been more than a committee. It was created by BMA Scotland i…

📣 NEW BLOG

‘We want to create workplaces & learning environments where ethnic minority doctors and students are empowered to speak up and to be heard’

@sajidfarid.bsky.social on the BMA's Scottish Race Equality Forum

Read more & find out how to be involved 👇

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Spreading the word on our fight for full funding restoration 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 with colleagues across Scotla…

📣NEW BLOG

‘An opportunity not only to keep GPs informed of ongoing negotiations with the Scottish Government but, crucially, to hear their lived experiences from the front line’

SGPC deputy chair Dr Chris Black looks back at the recent GP roadshows 👇

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Consultant and SAS doctor pay update: “fragile situation” as talks see slight improvement 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, in a very much abri…

📣NEW: Pay update for consultant & SAS doctors

✍️ ‘We will give our negotiations some further time to run…however this is a time limited process that must proceed at speed’

Read👇for the pay negs latest & steps you can take to support this work

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‘The future feels quite bleak’: Survey reveals unemployment concerns of resident doctors 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 role, includ…

🚨NEW BLOG

‘It’s more shocking than we imagined’

SRDC chair @chrissmith2211.bsky.social takes an in-depth look at the themes which emerged in the BMA Scotland survey on resident doctor unemployment

Read here 👇

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Highly skilled doctors leave Scotland in massive brain drain over lack of jobs A new BMA Scotland survey has found that 7 in 10 resident doctors are concerned about unemployment from August.

🗣️'The emerging medical unemployment crisis in Scotland...is by extension a crisis for our NHS and patients'

@chrissmith2211.bsky.social comments on a new BMA Scotland survey which found 7 in 10 resident doctors are concerned about unemployment

Full story 👇

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General practice must be saved now for the survival of the NHS, doctors warn Press release from BMA Scotland

And read all the details about our call for £290m to fill the funding gap that has developed since 2008 and enable GPs to do more for their patients here.

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🚨📽️ NEW STAND WITH YOUR SURGERY VIDEO!

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Find out about the difference our ask for #fullfundingrestoration would make for GPs and patients across Scotland.

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DDRB recommendations: Scottish consultant and SAS committee reaction 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.  Central to how we procced wi…

📣REMINDER: Consultant and SAS doctors in Scotland

We’re looking for your views on pay & the DDRB recommendations

Please fill in this short survey to help determine the next steps we take

Read more & link to survey 👇

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Pensions update for doctors in Scotland: we need your feedback 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 yet we have not rece…

‼️Time is running out to have your say on pensions

⏳Our NHS Scotland pensions feedback portal will be closing soon

📋Please complete the short form so we can take your experiences of pensions administration to SPPA and Scot Gov

Link and more info 👇

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BMA Scotland Consultant and SAS doctor pay survey 2025 Take this survey powered by surveymonkey.com. Create your own surveys for free.

Fill in our pay survey, let us know your feelings on the DDRB recommendations and how you think we should proceed.

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We’ll use the results of this survey to guide our approach and to do all we can to deliver acceptable pay awards for all senior doctors.

DDRB recommendations: Scottish consultant and SAS committee reaction 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.  Central to how we procced wi…

🚨NEW BLOG: Scottish Consultant & SAS doctors

Dr Sine Steele & Dr Alan Robertson respond to the DDRB recommendations in their latest blog

🗣️Only by properly investing in the workforce can we hope to begin solving this senior medical staffing crisis

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Pay Restoration: The Scottish Government must do better than the same-old DDRB 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 in England, Wales…

📣 ‘The Scottish Resident Doctor Committee in Scotland is clear: Full Pay Restoration is a principle that we will not abandon’

SRDC chair @chrissmith2211.bsky.social responds to the DDRB pay recommendation

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BMA Scotland responds to DDRB recommendations - BMA media centre - BMA Press release from BMA Scotland

🗣️ ‘Investing sufficiently and strongly in the medical workforce both now and for the future is as vital as it has ever been’

Chair @driainkennedy.bsky.social comments on the DDRB pay award recommendation today

Read the full response 👇👇

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BMA Scotland GP wellbeing and funding survey Take this survey on GP wellbeing and funding pressures.

*SURVEY CLOSING WEDNESDAY*
www.surveymonkey.com/r/GPfunding

Many thanks to the 1100+ GPs who have completed the survey. It would be great if we could hit the 1500 mark. It is open to ALL GPs in Scotland.
Please let your views be known. We will share the results publically soon after closing

Scottish resident doctor employment and training places survey 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 for the next stage of my tr…

ATTENTION: Resident doctors in Scotland

⌛ Time is running out to help us investigate concerns about medical unemployment

Our survey on the issue is closing soon - please fill in now if you are affected

Link to survey & read more 👇

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📣Resident doctors in Scotland

Last chance to participate in this survey. If you can, please take a moment today to fill in👇

Pensions update for doctors in Scotland: we need your feedback 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 yet we have not rece…

📣 REMINDER: Pensions feedback

We’ve launched a new portal so we can take your concerns on NHS pension scheme administration to SPPA & Scottish Gov

Please take a moment to feedback if you can

Full details & link to portal 👇

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SAS doctors update in Scotland – progression and pay vital given gaps in workforce 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. Hopefully you have all received you…

❗ NEW BLOG

Read the latest from SSASC chair Dr Sine Steele including updates on:

➡️ Progress being made in discussions on rates for extra short-term cover
➡️ This year’s DDRB process
➡️ Our FOI into vacancy rates for SAS posts in Scotland

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