My festive wish list for 2026, Scotland, our amazing #NHS and BMA Scotland #HealthInequalities #Compassion #Burnout #Targets @bmascotland.bsky.social bmascotland.home.blog/2025/12/30/f...

#Inequality in the accumulation of diseases and medications among older adults: a longitudinal cohort study 2016–2021 bmjpublichealth.bmj.com/content/3/2/... - #multimorbidity #health inequality - Individuals in deprived areas experience faster accumulation of conditions and medications.

The blue skies of Glasgow! Proud and excited to present our #Activism workshop at #UKLMC2025 today with Rachel Ali and Jo Sutton Klein #TradeUnion #Culture

Powerful from GPRC GP Reg Co-Chair Vicky McKay: her journey towards becoming an #ExpertMedicalGeneralist, extolling the virtues of @NHS_Education Scottish GP Training, while describing the troubling crossroads at which GPRs (GPST) stand #GPUnemployment #UKLMC2025

GP unemployment is having a devastating impact on GPs and patients. Today at #UKLMC2025 we gathered to call for urgent action to end this crisis. We need the additional funding to get GPs into work NOW.

GPs: #UKLMC2025 @BMA_GP Please consider donating to @TheCameronFund Helping GPs and their families in times of need - it could be you or me. Dr Rob Barnett has made it easy for you ⬇️⬇️⬇️

✍️ ‘Women’s interests seem particularly poorly represented.’ A new article co-authored by SC deputy chair @noramc.bsky.social for @bmj.com com looks at the ‘hidden’ impact of the recent error regarding the 2023 MRCP exam result Link here 👇 🧵 1/4 www.bmj.com/content/388/...

More about the Homes, Heat and Healthy Kids study 👉 tinyurl.com/3tpsd44p Animation 👉 tinyurl.com/5e56kz29 @rcpch.bsky.social @cmvm-edinburghuni.bsky.social @noramc.bsky.social @apsmunro.bsky.social @insidehousing.bsky.social @environmentdoc.bsky.social #healthinequalities #housing #retrofit

BJGPLife: Book review: The Doctor as the Patient: Doctors Recount Their Experiences on the Other Side of the Consultation Desk bjgplife.com/book-re...

Themes absolutely don’t emerge in quali research @bjgp.bsky.social - these badges a favourite gift from one of our postgrad researchers!

"Themes never emerge. You construct them." Dr Katherine Checkland on the role of and need for theory in qualitative research #BJGPRC

Are you a healthcare professional in the UK caring for people living with HIV aged over 50? What are the important issues for you & your patients? We are creating a bank of research questions to bring to a workshop to prioritise research in this area. app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/socs/have-...

Happy #InternationalWomensDay! 🎉 To mark #IWD2025, read these new blogs from inspirational women in medicine First up, @noramc.bsky.social looks at the #IWD2025 theme of #AccelerateAction and the work of BMA Scotland’s Gender Equality Group 👇 bmascotland.home.blog/2025/03/08/i...

Especially for my American sisters - friends, family, colleagues, and those I have yet to meet. We see what’s happening to you. We won’t look away #Organise ✊ #IWD2025: We need to advance and celebrate women’s equality both in the UK and worldwide bmascotland.home.blog/2025/03/08/i...

‘My first week in the NHS, I was like, wow okay.’ In the third episode of #TheDoctorPod international medical graduate doctors share their stories of adapting to change, braving UK weather & the challenges and rewards of working in today’s NHS. Follow and listen now – thedoctor.bma.org.uk/podcast

The latest episode of #TheDoctorPod spoke to three IMGs about working in today’s NHS. #OverseasNHSWorkersDay

Is the #GP partnership model fit for purpose? #NTSummit 🩺 Hear from @nigel-edwards.bsky.social @becksfisher.bsky.social @drkatie.bsky.social @liamloftus.bsky.social & Richard Sloggett at our Summit. Livestream info: buff.ly/3EMgXuR

✍️“For any LGBTQ+ people considering/already studying medicine: know that your identity is not a barrier but a strength.” 🏳️‍🌈As LGBTQ+ History Month draws to a close, read this important & thought-provoking blog from our SMSC chair @aaronfdez.bsky.social 👇 bmascotland.home.blog/2025/02/28/l...

Dr Chris Black of @rebuildgp.co.uk and deputy chair of BMA Scotland SGPC makes the front page of the Daily Record today as he outlines the challenges facing GPs in Scotland. 🗣️“The system has become overwhelmed” Read the full story 👇 www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottis...

More information on what the BMA is doing to help those affected by long Covid and support available can be found here ⬇️ #CovidDayofReflection www.bma.org.uk/advice-and-s...

You can find out more about the events taking place for #CovidDayofReflection in Scotland here ⬇️ dayofreflection.campaign.gov.uk/events/

Ahead of #CovidDayOfReflection taking place on Sunday, BMA Scotland chair @driainkennedy.bsky.social reflects five years on since the pandemic ✍️‘Every single NHS worker stood up to be counted, when it counted. I have no doubt we would do so again.' Read ⬇️ bmascotland.home.blog/2025/03/06/s...

In our new paper @profbambra.bsky.social and I argue that the ongoing #polycrisis has profound implications for global #publichealth, shaping health inequalities now and for future generations. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

We've written to @WesStreeting to ask for a coordinated, urgent response to the @MRCPUK exams debacle that protects jobs and training, so no doctor suffers further detriment. We represent many doctors affected and will pursue all legal routes available. Read our demands 👇

GPs and patients are feeling the effects of the crisis in #GeneralPractice - especially in deprived areas. Gateshead GP Dr Paul Evans took The Guardian inside his surgery to show the impact of the crisis. #RebuildGP #TeamGP @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/uk-news/vide...

“Fix Poverty, fix health” #SDoH www.theguardian.com/uk-news/vide... #HealthInequalities

A powerful and meaningful read that really displays why LGBTQ+ History Month is relevant today. Section 28 is a taint on UK history that our leaders need to learn from. We must protect and empower our LGBTQ+ colleagues so that they can provide the best patient outcomes without discrimination 🌈

‘The contrast between my early experiences and the welcoming environment I eventually discovered…shows how far we’ve come & how far we still have to go’ Read this powerful and inspiring blog from a doctor in Scotland marking LGBTQ+ History Month 👇 bmascotland.home.blog/2025/02/13/l...

So proud to call this doctor a friend Mark her words #Pride

Kicking off #BlackHistoryMonth  w/ an appreciation thread of physicians: 1/ Charles R. Drew, MD - American surgeon & researcher - pioneer in the field of blood transfusions - developed techniques for blood storage - first African-American surgeon to examine for @facs.org

!! #AI #Medicine #NHS #Heidi open.substack.com/pub/medicuri...

That’s a lot more than the 300/week @rcem.bsky.social estimated for 12 hr deaths in 2023. That’s mostly because their figures are from an earlier study with lower estimates of the increased risk of death, and which only covered patients subsequently admitted (ONS also includes non-admitted). 4/12

My calculations (details later) point to 12h+ A&E waits being associated with more than 1100 deaths a week in 2024. That’s 1100 deaths that can’t be explained by the range of factors that ONS took into account. 3/12

Last week ONS published analysis showing that an A&E wait of 12-13 hours is associated with a more-than-doubling of the chance of death within 30 days, compared to a wait of 2-3 hours. But how many deaths is that? 🧵 1/12 www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...

‘Our job is to be truthful not neutral’ -- Celebrated journalist Christiane Amanpour on Trump, tech and fighting for the truth www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j... via @theguardian.com #infodemic #misinformation #journalism

I ran @USAID health programs for the last 3 years. Trump’s 90 day Stop Work Order on foreign assistance does serious damage to the world and the US. Examples:🧵

Make no mistake — these essential, lifesaving activities are being halted right now. Clinics are shuttering. Workers sent home. Partners including US small businesses face being unable to meet payroll. All despite clear requirements from Congress to do this work.

4. Stops >$1B in corporate drug donations and coordination eradicating tropical diseases like river blindness, elephantiasis, and others on the verge of elimination in whole regions. www.neglecteddiseases.gov/about/result...

This is a fascinating article on community networks and asset based community development (ABCD). It’s by Cormac Russell & Joop Hoffman and well worth a read. I spoke a little about an asset based approach at a recent Royal College of Physicians meeting. www.qeios.com/read/TD4ETJ

Love this. I've found that there's a huge appetite for active and practical application of this in San Francisco YIMBY network working as a community to improve conditions in the city. #yimby

The combination of COVID-19, a steep rise in gun violence and drug overdoses pushed parental deaths up by 46% during the first two years of the pandemic. By age 18, almost one in 13 children – 5.4 million in all – will experience the death of a parent... mindsitenews.org/2025/01/23/g...

Just attended an amazing talk by @drjessigold.bsky.social at the University of Cincinnati Psychiatry Grand Rounds! I really appreciated her honesty, vulnerability and practicality! #MedSky #PsychSky Highly recommend checking out her book or considering inviting her to speak!

This was general practice in remote Canada. Bottom line: NPs worked really well so long as there was a good working relationship between the local NP and the supporting GP (typically hundreds of miles away). The relationship was based on personal knowledge and trust.

My one and only encounter, as a patient, with a PA, they introduced themselves as "Andy". No title, nothing. I asked "oh hi, are you one of the GPs or ANPs?" Slight delay- "I'm one of the clinicians , I'm a PA"... I declined to speak to "Andy" further. Always introduce yourself properly.

Who has asked you to attend a meeting? Do contact your MDO or BMA for support. Remember you have Human Rights Act entitlements to both freedom of speech and a private life.

I’m worried sick about patient safety as highly trained clinicians are replaced by 2yr-trained associates. Does this make me a “social media rabble”? Or is the “be kind” movement being cynically weaponised? Those monitoring my posts, put this on the agenda for the meeting you’ve asked me to attend.

“Dr Benn is being punished twice for the same thing – and something that bears no influence on her clinical skills, ability or safety.” @latifapatel.bsky.social Read our full press response to the High Court judgment on Dr Sarah Benn. www.bma.org.uk/bma-media-ce...

Similar thing here. My wife is working on registration of a new anti-cancer drug. Received info today that FDA activities have been halted, registration process suspended for an unspecified period… 🤪

Today we're sharing @makesmilkemma.bsky.social's post on @unicef.org exploring what’s normal in the first days of breastfeeding a newborn. An interesting read for new and expecting mums - and for those who want an insight into the early days of breastfeeding. www.unicef.org.uk/babyfriendly...

Some coverage about this paper. "Focus groups with 17 medical school students and faculty members found that disability issues are routinely omitted from curricula, framed as an individual responsibility rather than structurally determined." www.statnews.com/2025/01/16/a...