🩺 #SASWeek26 is almost here!
Keep an eye out for SAS Week events in hospitals and health boards across Wales next week.
📖 We'll be sharing daily blogs from Welsh SAS doctors on career development, specialist grade roles, leadership, advocacy and more.
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ALT Promotional graphic for SAS Week 2026 jointly branded by NHS Wales Employers and the BMA. The design features a large photograph of healthcare professionals wearing surgical attire and face masks, with two smaller inset images below showing a clinician reviewing medical scans and a group of healthcare staff in discussion. Large white text reads “SAS WEEK 5–9 OCTOBER 2026” on a dark blue background, with the tagline “Celebrating the SAS workforce”. At the bottom, the hashtag “#SASWeek26” appears above a row of coloured blocks. The graphic uses NHS and BMA branding colours throughout.
🚨Medical students and FY1/FY2 doctors in Wales
🗣️We need to hear about your experiences of the Foundation programme allocation system to inform our work
Please complete this short survey ⬇️
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👥 43% of GP practices report freezing recruitment.
At a time when demand is rising, practices are being forced to make difficult decisions just to stay afloat.
General practice needs sustainable investment. #SaveOurSurgeries
👉 Read the report bma.org.uk/advice-and-suppor…
ALT purple and white graphic with BMA Cymru Wales logo and the text 43% of GPs are freezing recruitment & Save Our Surgeries
ALT Graffig porffor a gwyn gyda logo BMA Cymru Wales a'r testun: "Mae 43% o feddygon teulu yn rhewi recriwtio" ac "Achubwch Ein Meddygfeydd".
🏥 106 GP surgeries have closed in Wales since 2012.
Every closure means a community loses local healthcare access and continuity of care.
We can't afford to lose any more.
👉 Read the report bma.org.uk/advice-and-suppor…#SaveOurSurgeries
ALT purple and white graphic with BMA Cymru Wales logo and the text 106 GP surgeries have closed since 2012 & Save Our Surgeries.
📊 63% of Welsh GPs say workload is having a routine or constant impact on patient care.
When surgeries are stretched beyond capacity, patients feel the effects too.
It's time to properly invest in general practice and #SaveOurSurgeries
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ALT purple and white graphic with BMA Cymru Wales logo and the text 63 % of GPs reported routine or constant impacts on patient care due to workload & Save Our Surgeries.
ALT Graffig porffor a gwyn gyda logo BMA Cymru Wales a'r testun: "Nododd 63% o feddygon teulu effaith arferol neu gyson ar ofal cleifion oherwydd llwyth gwaith" ac "Achubwch Ein Meddygfeydd".
🗣️Mewn poblogaeth o 3.3 miliwn, erbyn hyn mae dim ond 368 meddygfa a dim ond 1,485 o feddygon teulu llawn-amser.
Achubwch Ein Meddygfeydd i achub y GIG. Darllenwch fwy 👇
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With the right investment, and a long-term vision, general practice can lead prevention, improve population health, reduce inequalities, support earlier diagnosis and treatment, and help build a more sustainable NHS
Read our #SaveourSurgeries report
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GPs are calling for a greater share of the NHS budget to be spent on general practice in Wales, warning that surgeries are struggling with rising patient numbers following years of underinvestment nation.cymru/news/gps-call-f…
“Whilst it's vital to show the impact of the pressure, with this report we wanted to present the Welsh Government with an opportunity. Fund general practice fairly and watch the NHS improve" 🗣️@GOelmann
GPC Wales launches ‘Save Our Surgeries’ report
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🚨 Heddiw rydym yn lansio adroddiad newydd fel rhan o ymgyrch #AchubEinMeddygfeydd
🏴 Mae meddygfeydd teulu ledled Cymru yn wynebu galw cynyddol, prinder gweithlu a blynyddoedd o danfuddsoddi
⚕️Drws ffrynt y GIG yw meddygaeth deuluol
🚨 Today we launched a new report in the #SaveOurSurgeries campaign
🩺The report which shows the unprecedented pressure on GPs, calls for a higher percentage of the NHS budget to strengthen general practice and restore the nation’s health service
🏴Doctors in Wales: looking to improve your Welsh or support a colleague to do so?
🗣️ The Health and Care Speaking Support Scheme pairs Welsh learners with confident speakers for informal online chats to help build confidence
⏱️ Around 1 hr a month
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🏴Meddygon yng Nghymru: hoffech ddefnyddio mwy o Gymraeg yn y gwaith?
🗣️ Mae'r Cynllun Siarad Iechyd a Gofal yn paru dysgwyr Cymraeg â siaradwyr hyderus ar gyfer sgyrsiau anffurfiol ar-lein sy'n helpu i feithrin hyder a datblygu sgiliau siarad
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"Er mai’r penderfyniad i barhau i ohirio’r rhaglen addysg yng Nghymru yw’r peth diogel a chywir i’w wneud, mae cynnydd yn y maes hwn wedi bod yn llawer rhy araf”
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🩺Doctors in Wales, we need you!
🏥Help us to show the impact of corridor care at your place of work by completing our UK-wide corridor care survey
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The NHS is in the midst of a corridor care crisis, so we’re keeping up the pressure on the Government.
Doctors: Help us push for change by answering our survey today. research.net/r/CorridorCareS…
ALT In England alone more than 3,000 patients experience corridor care every day.
ALT Corridor care is a major healthcare crisis.
ALT Doctors are on the frontlines of the corridor care crisis. We need to add your voice to the national conversation. Doctors in the UK, fill in our survey and help us pressure the Government to eliminate corridor care across the country.