A reminder that voting is open for 16 directly elected seats on Welsh Council (2026–2029) 🗳️ Make sure your voice is heard before 12 noon, Thursday 11 June. Vote here 👉 bma.org.uk/what-we-d... Please share with your BMA colleagues 🔁

📢Resident doctors in Wales ❓Have you been unable to secure a specialty training place, permanent work or develop your career? 🗣️Send us a DM and tell us about your experiences to help us push for change

❓Have you voted in the Welsh Council elections 📩 Look out for the member email with all the details 🗳️Choose your preferred candidates and cast your vote by 12pm, Thursday 11 June

🗓️SAVE THE DATE | Wed, 17 June, 7PM - 8PM 🏳️‍🌈Join us for a webinar on Cisheteronormativity in the medical profession: Supporting, empowering, and celebrating queer doctors hosted by PROUD@BMA #PrideMonth2026 🔗Find out more & register to attend bit.ly/4ocJqN1

"Corridor care exposes vulnerable individuals to a lack of privacy, dignity, and essential care, while staff struggle to deliver safe treatment" That's why today we're backing calls by @talkolderpeople.bsky.social for an urgent action plan to tackle corridor care bit.ly/3RHYIgM

Join us today and pay nothing for the first 3 months 👇 👥 Be part of 200,000 UK doctors and medical students driving real change in our profession. We’ll give you the platform to make a difference—at work and across the profession. 🔗 join.bma.org.uk/intro/

⚕️Are you attending the HEIW SAS conference today? If so, we'd love to meet you! Come to our stand and have chat with our friendly and knowledgeable staff about how we can support you in your career, provide guidance on professional development, and direct you to resources. 📚

Medical students in Wales, do you want to shape the future of medicine? WMSC vacancies for 2026/27: 📍Cardiff (Y1,3,4) | Bangor (Y1–3) | Swansea (Y1,3) + 1 intercalating student. Step forward and represent your peers. 🕛 Nominate by 29 June 👉authgateway.bma.org....

🗳️Voting is now open to elect representatives for the 2026 -2029 Welsh Council. 📩Members, you have been sent an email with more information and a voting link ⏰ Voting closes, 12pm, 11 June.

📢Resident doctor members in Wales 👨‍💻Join our webinar 7pm, 10 June to find out more about... 🪧Our trade dispute over pay & jobs 🏥 Medical underemployment 📰Our new contract 🔗Register and submit a question ⬇️ bit.ly/4feZICO

🩺GPs in Wales📋Please take 10–15 mins to complete our Workload, Workforce & Wellbeing Survey. Your responses strengthen our evidence for GMS contract talks with the incoming Welsh Government and our Save Our Surgeries campaign. £50 John Lewis draw 🎁 👉 www.surveymonkey.com...

LNC update from Cardiff & Vale 🩺 ✅ Call for better two-way communication ✅ Progress on a fair study leave policy ✅ Improving access to rest facilities Read the newsletter: 🔗https://bit.ly/4wJFs2g

🗳️Voting is now open to elect representatives for the 2026 -2029 Welsh Council. 📩Members look out for an email with more information and a voting link ⏰Voting closes, 12pm, 11 June.

🗓️SAVE THE DATE 🗓️ 🩺Open to all resident doctor members working in Wales 📅 Wednesday 10 June | ⏰ 7–8pm 🔗Register to attend bit.ly/4wMAlP6

📰Latest Cwm Taf Morgannwg LNC newsletter is out 🗣️Your reps have been working hard to raise issues, improving conditions for doctors locally, but we need more voices 🏥If you want to represent colleagues & shape change, consider joining your LNC 🔗https://bit.ly/4wFfXPz

‘Patient safety and public trust are paramount.’ Our new guidance aims to give doctors and medical students clarity on their rights and responsibilities around freedom of expression in the workplace. www.bma.org.uk/news-and-opi...

📢Medical student members in Wales ⏳There's still time to nominate yourself for WMSC 🗳️Nominations close at midday tomorrow 🔗http://elections.bma.org.uk

📣 Aelodau BMA yng Nghymru — nawr yw eich cyfle i gynnig eich hun ar gyfer Cyngor Cymru ⚕️Dyma gyfle i gynrychioli meddygon a myfyrwyr meddygol ledled Cymru ar lefel genedlaethol Enwebwch eich hun heddiw: bit.ly/4tXI0Ie%E2%9... 📲 Cwestiynau Cyffredin ar Instagram @bmacymru

⌛It's the last few days before nominations for WMSC close on the 14th May Make sure your fellow student's voices are heard📢 Nominate yourself today 👉http://elections.bma.org.uk or follow the link in our bio

🗣️BMA members in Wales, become a voice for your peers. 🗳️Stand for Welsh Council and be the national voice for doctors and medical students across Wales. Nominate yourself today 🔗https://bit.ly/4tXI0Ie 📱 Visit our Instagram bmacymru for FAQs Nominations close at midday on 19 May

⚕️Consultant and resident doctors. 📍We will be at the All Wales School of Emergency Medicine Conference | 8 May🗓️ See you at The Vale Resort. Come and chat to the BMA Cymru Wales team 👋 Ask us about how we can support you in Wales. #BMACymruWales #NHSWales

If you're thinking about joining Welsh Council it's not too late to join our information session today at 12.30pm Register to attend bit.ly/4n388ip

📍 CTM Education & Development Conference | 7 May 🗓️ 🏥We’ll be at Prince Charles Hospital (Merthyr). Come and chat to the BMA Cymru Wales team 👋 Ask us about how we can support you in Wales. #BMACymruWales #NHSWales

"It is more pragmatic, more humane, as well as being more cost effective, to keep people as independent as possible and in their own homes" @nhsdoctor.bsky.social on why our manifesto is calling for a higher proportion of NHS spend into general practice thedoctor.bma.org.uk/articles/lif...

❓Thinking about standing for Welsh Council? 💻Join our informal virtual info session to learn how it works and what membership involves. 📅 Thu 7 May ⏰12:30–13:30 Open to Welsh members interested in standing. 👉 https://bit.ly/4n388ip

Have a vision for general practice in Wales? 🩺 Nominations are now open for GPC Wales (2026–2029): • Bro Taf – 5 seats • Morgannwg – 3 seats 🕛 Open: Tue 5 May ⏰ Close: Mon 18 May 👉 Find out more and nominate bma-mail.org.uk/t/c/AQiEtRUQ...

❓Do you want to represent the profession in Wales? 🖥️ Join our virtual information session on Thursday 7 May at 12.30pm to find out more about Welsh Council. Register to attend bit.ly/4n388ip

“We need to focus on prevention rather than fighting the fires” 🗣️ Dr Gareth Oelmann, GPC Wales chair, on the urgent need for increased investment into general practice Read our manifesto ➡️ bit.ly/4vQILo6 #Senedd26

Welsh members are you thinking about standing for Welsh Council? 💬Join us for an informal information session to find out how Welsh Council works & what being a member entails. Follow the QR code 👇 📅 Thursday 7 May ⏰ 12:30–13:30 Open to members interested in standing

🏥 Doctors in Wales: want a say in BMA policy and healthcare issues affecting Wales? 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Nominate yourself for BMA’s Welsh Council and help shape decisions for the profession. 🗓 Open 9am, today, 28 April ⏰Close 12 noon 19 May 2026 Nominations👇 www.bma.org.uk/what-we-do/u...

📣 Medical students in Wales! 🩺 Nominations are now OPEN for WMSC reps 2026/27 🎓 Represent your medical school ✅ Make student voices heard 🗣️ ⏰ Close: 14 May (12:00) 🔗 elections.bma.org.uk

Doctors working in Wales 🗣️Help us to ensure the profession is heard this #Senedd26 election 📩We've created a quick and effective election tool to write to your local candidates about the issues affecting you and your patients activism.bma.org.uk/page/190721/...

📣 BMA Clwyd North Division members in north Wales: join our Senedd Election Hustings on Tuesday 28 April in Denbighshire. 📆 A chance to hear from candidates and raise issues that matter to doctors. 📩 You will have recently received an email with how to register your interest

🗣️Aelodau’r BMA yng Nghymru, dewch yn llais i’ch cydweithwyr. 🗳️Enwebiadau'n agor: 28 Ebrill - 19 Mai 2026

👩‍⚕️Want to know more about the new Welsh Resident doctor contract? 🎧@redrunswick.bsky.social talks to Deiniol Jones and Emily Sams about how WRDC secured the new terms and what doctors can expect from August onwards bit.ly/4sMDzi8

🗣️Stand for Welsh Council and be the national voice for doctors and medical students across Wales 🗳️Nominations for the next Welsh Council will be open from 28 April - 19 May 2026

📅Nominations for the 26/27 Welsh Medical Students Committee are now open 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Be the voice for medical students in Wales 🗓️ Nominations close 12pm, 14 May 👉 Nominate yourself: elections.bma.org.uk

🗣️Many thanks to the candidates and members who joined our Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan Division hustings this week. 🙏 Diolch yn fawr!

🙏Thank you to all the candidates and members who took part in last night’s joint virtual hustings event with RCN Wales 👩‍💻Read our manifesto to find out what we want to see from the next Welsh Government ⬇️ 🔗https://bit.ly/4vQILo6

Retired BMA members in North Wales 👋 Join us 28 April - 13:30 to hear updates from the BMA, pensions, ethics and the Beds Campaign — and reconnect over lunch ☕️🤝 Optional: stay for the Senedd election hustings (6–7.30pm) with a hot supper 🍽️ 🔗www.bma.org.uk/event...

🩺GPs in Wales! ❓Have you completed our workforce, wellbeing and workload survey? 🗣️We need to hear from the profession to help inform our work 🛍️Complete the 10-15 minute survey and be in with a chance to win £50 in shopping vouchers 👩‍💻 bit.ly/4czHrND

🗳️WRDC votes to enter dispute over pay 📩Members, please look out for an email with more details 📲Check your contact details are up to date bit.ly/4vozXW6

📩 Wales members: check your emails for invites to our hustings Ask future MSs about: 🗣️ 🏥 GP investment 👩‍⚕️ Doctor workforce ⚠️ Patient safety & corridor care #HealthInOurHands manifesto 👉https://www.bma.org.uk/what-we-do/working-with-uk-governments/governments/working-with-welsh-parliament-senedd-cymru

🙌WRDC Win! 📕As part of the resident doctor and dentist contract reform package, we’ve secured the following reforms to study budget for all residents regardless of whether they move to the new contract.⬇️

📣Calling all BMA Cymru members - what health issues are important to you ❓ 🧾Read our manifesto and talk to your candidates about issues which concern our NHS 👉www.bma.org.uk/what-...

📢In its March 2026 meeting, Welsh Council voted unanimously to pass the following motion. Read the motion in full 🔗https://www.bma.org.uk/what-we-do/uk-national-and-regional-councils/uk-and-national/welsh-council

🚨Welsh Council has 1 remaining seat at this year’s ARM, with 15 candidates standing All BMA members in Wales 🗳️Simply log in to your BMA account and vote under the elections section. 🕛Voting closes: 12 noon, 8 April 2026

🗣️For years we have called for restrictions on the placement and promotion of foods high in fat, salt and sugar, so this is a welcome step forward. 🛒We will continue to campaign to ensure people are given the best chance to make healthier choices to prevent obesity www.gov.wales/healthier-ch...

"It makes no consideration for the way doctors routinely sacrifice their own health to bridge the gap between dwindling resources and rising patient demand" Read our response to the 26/27 pay award bit.ly/4lTgGrt

“As doctors in Wales, we have repeatedly raised the alarm. "All political parties must commit to ending corridor care and tackling the causes of long waits" Read our response to the latest RCEM report ⬇️ www.bma.org.uk/bma-media-ce...