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📽️ NEW VIDEO for Consultants in🏴
Hear why your ballot is about both working lives AND pay from SCC chair Dr Joanna Bredski.
The vote opens on Oct 26. If you are not a member, join to have your say. And if you are part of the BMA, check your details to ensure we can reach you.
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🤝Introducing new SRDC chair, Dr Callum Williams.
In his first blog, @cmwilliams99:
👏 Pays tribute to predecessor Dr Chris Smith
➡️ Gives the latest on contract and pay negs
🫵 Provides details on how to get involved
👀Read in full:
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Concerns have been raised across the medical profession about unhelpful and inappropriate blurring of the distinction between doctors and non-medically qualified staff.
Our new report details safety concerns we have received relating to advanced practitioners.
You can read the full report on our website bma.org.uk/our-campaigns/all…
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📽️ NEW VIDEO!
🚨Scottish consultants: as we prepare for the ballot on industrial action, find out from Dr Joanna Bredksi, SCC chair, what you need to do to have your say and demand better working lives.
Now is the time to stand up for our profession and our patients.
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👀Read all that details - and find the links for joining the BMA and updating your details in Dr Bredksi's blog below....
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🚨INPUT NEEDED!
Our Gender Equality Group is looking at how we can better support women doctors and medical students across Scotland.
To help we've launched a survey. All the details in @now_its_nora's blog below. Please spend five mins filling it in!
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📽️SCOTTISH CONSULTANTS:
Hear from Committee Chair Dr Joanna Bredski on the reasons why we are balloting you on industrial action.
The vote opens on October 26th - keep following for all the details.
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And read Dr Bredski's blog below for more.
🚨ONLY BMA members can vote, so join if you want to have a say.
🚨If you are a member, check and update your details to ensure we can reach you with our comms and the ballot when it opens.
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UPDATE FOR GPs:
➡️ Practice funding uplift agreed
➡️ Have your say in survey launching today
➡️ Sign up for our webinar on sustainable working guidance on Sept 30th.
✍️Read all the details in the latest blog from your negotiating team here. 👇
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🚨🏴SAS docs - your committee has voted to ballot on industrial action over working conditions and pay.
When the ballot opens on Oct 26, vote yes to get the Scot Gov back to the table and into meaningful talks.
📽️Hear from your committee Chair, Dr Sine Steele here:
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And read Dr Steele's full blog below.
✍️"please vote yes in the BMA’s ballot and demand the better working lives we deserve. Be part of our collective effort to deliver a better future for our profession, our patients and the NHS in Scotland."
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🗓️ BALLOT DATES for consultants in 🏴
The vote on industrial action will take place between Oct 26 and Dec 7.
Only members are able to vote - so join the BMA to have your say and demand better working lives. Read more from SCC chair Dr Joanna Bredski:
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🩺Dr Nóra Murray-Cavanagh has become the new chair of BMA Scottish Council this week
📽️Watch👇to find out her thoughts on priorities for doctors across Scotland
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❗️NEW: GPs in Scotland
BMA SGPC team is holding an evening webinar on 30 Sep
➡️Sign up to find out about sustainable working guidance & using it in your practice
➡️Hear about health board reform & other areas of concern
Details & sign up link 👇
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Senior doctors in Scotland prepare to seek a strike mandate. Find out more
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🚨IMPORTANT UPDATE: Consultants in Scotland
BMA Scottish consultants committee has voted to ballot on industrial action over working conditions & pay
Find out more on the next steps from SCC chair Dr Joanna Bredski 👇
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🚨IMPORTANT UPDATE: Consultants in Scotland
BMA Scottish consultants committee has voted to ballot on industrial action over working conditions & pay
Find out more on the next steps from SCC chair Dr Joanna Bredski 👇
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🚨@BMAScotland Gender Equality Group is looking at how we can better support women doctors and medical students across Scotland
Please take 5 mins to fill in our short survey - link and full details 👇
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🗣️‘The voice of doctors and NHS staff must be heard and taken into account in a full, open & honest period of consultation’
✍️Read the blog from outgoing chair @DrIainKennedy on how @BMAScotland will scrutinise health board reform plans & support members
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🚨Doctors in Scotland
@TheBMA wants to hear experiences of dealing with the corridor care crisis in hospitals across the UK
Please fill in this short survey 👇
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.
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📢‘Structural reform must not come at the expense of the immediate need to address the challenges the NHS faces’
@BMAScotland responds to @ScotGov #ProgrammeforGovernment #PFG announcement
Read the full comment from @DrIainKennedy 👇
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📻ICYMI
You can also listen back to @DrIainKennedy discussing the #ProgrammeforGovernment announcement on @BBCRadioScot - from around 14:40
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