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Highland Doctor. Chair of The BMA Scottish Council
@the-bma.bsky.social
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Dr Iain Kennedy
BMA Scotland
13 days ago
📢 Medical students in Scotland Have your say on student intake numbers and how it's affected your university experience by taking a few minutes to complete our latest survey 👇
forms.office.com/e/BNkE6ZkaiF
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BMA Scotland
11 days ago
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 🧵1/4
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Dr Iain Kennedy
BMA Scotland
about 1 month ago
‼️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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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 &…
https://bmascotland.home.blog/2025/10/10/scottish-resident-doctors-to-be-balloted-for-strike-as-scottish-government-breaks-deal/
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Dr Iain Kennedy
BMA Scotland
about 2 months ago
📣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💷)
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2550016...
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Dr Iain Kennedy
3 months ago
✈️ Calling all GPs & GP trainees in Scotland! I’m conducting a short anonymous survey on how GPs handle aviation-related consultations. Takes 5 mins & closes 07/09/25. 🔗
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Please complete the survey & kindly share with GP and GP trainees across Scotland 🙏
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Aviation Medicine Awareness Among GPs in Scotland
We are conducting a short, anonymous survey to explore how General Practitioners (GPs) in Scotland approach aviation medicine in clinical practice. This includes your experience advising patients abou...
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc8dC0HZAZ7QYF1nEtw8WRjtAF9KPg8LUjILh9Y4eQl1GMJvA/viewform?usp=header
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Dr Iain Kennedy
BMA Scotland
3 months ago
🗣️“These figures should do very little to reassure anyone that the crisis in general practice is anywhere near being fixed” SGPC chair
@drimchairsgpc.bsky.social
comments on the latest GP workforce data published today Read the full response 👇👇 🧵 1/3
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Response to General Practice Workforce Survey - BMA media centre - BMA
Press release from BMA Scotland
https://www.bma.org.uk/bma-media-centre/response-to-general-practice-workforce-survey
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🏴 Resident doctors’ leader
@chrissmith2211.bsky.social
🗣️ “The Scottish Government knows that our members are resolute and united: now is their chance to lead reform and avoid the mistakes made by Whitehall so far in under-estimating how powerful that is.” 🩺 Read more ⬇️⬇️⬇️
@bmascotland.bsky.social
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Dr Iain Kennedy
The BMA
4 months ago
Today marks 20 years since the 7/7 bombings struck London. On that day, 52 people were killed, with many more injured. We remember all those who lost their lives and were – and continue to be – impacted by the events of that day.
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Dr Iain Kennedy
The Scotsman
5 months ago
NHS is 'dying before our eyes', warns doctors' union
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NHS is 'dying before our eyes', warns doctors' union
BMA Scotland sounded the alarm after a new poll revealed the extent of private medical care
https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/nhs-is-dying-before-our-eyes-warns-doctors-union-5190303
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Dr Iain Kennedy
BMA Scotland
5 months ago
🗣️'Our message to all politicians in the coming months as the Scottish Parliament election approaches is that it is not too late to save the NHS – but we cannot afford to wait another five years for the necessary action.'
@driainkennedy.bsky.social
comments in
@holyroodmag.bsky.social
Read 👇
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Dr Iain Kennedy
BMA Scotland
5 months ago
🚨 NEW BLOG ‘Please don’t let us burnout’ ✍️ Dr Sharon Hamilton writes from personal experience on the ‘relentless’ pressures GPs are facing - and why full funding restoration is needed
#standwithyoursurgery
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Stand with your surgery: Please don’t let us burn out
I am a GP who genuinely loves her job. It is a challenging but wonderfully rewarding vocation. The team I work with are driven by an incredible desire to do their best for their patients. But to be…
https://bmascotland.home.blog/2025/06/19/pressures-on-general-practice/
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Dr Iain Kennedy
BMA Scotland
5 months ago
SGPC chair
@drimchairsgpc.bsky.social
speaks to ITV Representing Border at the Scottish Parliament after taking part in an evidence session held by
@parliament.scot
Public Audit Committee in which he outlined the challenges being faced by GPs 👇
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Dr Iain Kennedy
BMA Scotland
5 months ago
📻‘The result of our survey…showed us GPs are absolutely exhausted… We have not enough resource to meet the needs of our patients and services are really suffering’ SGPC chair
@drimchairsgpc.bsky.social
on BBC's The Sunday Show Listen back 👇 from 1:20:30
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The Sunday Show - 15/06/2025 - BBC Sounds
News, discussion and interviews from politics and beyond.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002dknn
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Dr Iain Kennedy
The BMA
5 months ago
We are deeply saddened by the tragic plane crash in Ahmedabad. On behalf of the BMA
@drphilbanfield.bsky.social
has written to the Indian Medical Association to express our condolences and support at this difficult time. Our thoughts are with the families, students, doctors, and all those affected.
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BMA Scotland
5 months ago
🚨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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‘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…
https://bmascotland.home.blog/2025/06/13/the-future-feels-quite-bleak-survey-reveals-unemployment-concerns-of-resident-doctors/
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Dr Iain Kennedy
BMA Scotland
6 months ago
🚨📽️ NEW STAND WITH YOUR SURGERY VIDEO! 🏴Find out about the difference our ask for
#fullfundingrestoration
would make for GPs and patients across Scotland. 👀 Have a watch below.... 👇👇👇 1/2
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BMA Scotland
5 months ago
🗣️'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 👇
www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottis...
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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.
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/highly-skilled-doctors-leave-scotland-35365905
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Dr Iain Kennedy
BMA Scotland
6 months ago
🚨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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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…
https://bmascotland.home.blog/2025/05/26/ddrb-recommendations-scottish-consultant-and-sas-committee-reaction/
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Dr Iain Kennedy
BMA Scotland
6 months ago
📣 ‘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 Read more 👇
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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…
https://bmascotland.home.blog/2025/05/22/pay-restoration-the-scottish-government-must-do-better-than-the-same-old-ddrb/
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Dr Iain Kennedy
BMA Scotland
6 months ago
🗣️ ‘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 responds to DDRB recommendations - BMA media centre - BMA
Press release from BMA Scotland
https://www.bma.org.uk/bma-media-centre/bma-scotland-responds-to-ddrb-recommendations
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Dr Iain Kennedy
BMA Scotland
6 months ago
📣'Across the four nations of the UK, general practice is crumbling' 📄Read this new report which spells out why it is so important that GPs are properly valued 👇
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Dr Iain Kennedy
The BMA
6 months ago
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.
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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 ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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Dr Iain Kennedy
The BMA
6 months ago
📣 The Value of a GP We've made it very clear: general practice is vital to a healthy NHS. This new BMA report lays out the evidence – economic, clinical, and human – that shows why GPs are essential. Continuity of care is the remedy. Read here 👉
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Dr Iain Kennedy
BMA Scotland
7 months ago
❗NEW BLOG: Pensions update With statements now going out, an update on issues including: 👉Delays to RPSS 👉Inaccuracies in ABS-RSS 👉Concerns about the level of service being provided by the SPPA 👉Practitioner contributions Read the blog here 👇
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Spring pensions update for doctors in Scotland
My last pensions blog was at the end of 2024. I’ve been holding off in issuing another one in the hope that I could report good news and that everything was sorted with the McCloud Remedy but sadl…
https://bmascotland.home.blog/2025/04/17/spring-pensions-update-for-bma-scotland-members/
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Dr Iain Kennedy
The BMA
7 months ago
BMA are considering next steps after a disappointing ruling from the High Court in our case against the GMC for blurring the lines between doctors and physician associates. Full statement 👇
@drphilbanfield.bsky.social
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Dr Iain Kennedy
The BMA
8 months ago
We have published a report compiling the shocking testimonies of doctors who have witnessed unsafe practice by PAs and AAs. Patients are being let down by the repeated failures of NHS leaders to keep them safe. Read the full report here:
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BMA Scotland
8 months ago
Busy evening for SGPC chair
@drimchairsgpc.bsky.social
speaking to GPs in Fife last night You can also find out more about 'Where to now?' for GPs in Scotland by reading the latest blog from the SGPC team 👇
bmascotland.home.blog/2025/04/01/b...
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BMA Scotland
8 months ago
‼️NEW BLOG: GPs in Scotland - read the latest update from the SGPC team covering: ➡️ Audit Scotland GP report reaction ➡️ Impact of National Insurance increases ➡️ Meeting with Cabinet Secretary Read here to find out all the details 👇
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BMA Scotland GP update: Audit Scotland report, NI rises and Cabinet Secretary meeting
General Practice is currently operating in the most challenging circumstances of a generation. Last week’s Audit Scotland report set out exactly why, in bleak detail. But, at the BMA’s SGPC committ…
https://bmascotland.home.blog/2025/04/01/bma-scotland-gp-update-audit-scotland-report-ni-rises-and-cabinet-secretary-meeting/
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BMA Scotland
8 months ago
📻‘It’s good we are talking about a plan…but we are very sceptical that this is going to make any difference’ BMA Scotland chair
@driainkennedy.bsky.social
spoke to BBC Radio Scotland on the Scottish Government’s latest plan for the NHS Listen back 👇 from 1:07:16
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Drivetime - 31/03/2025 - BBC Sounds
Breaking down the days talking points with comment and opinion.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0029hc9
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Dr Iain Kennedy
BMA Scotland
8 months ago
‘General practice continues to feel overwhelmed…The real concern is the consistent erosion of the funding that is dedicated towards general practice within the NHS’
@drimchairsgpc.bsky.social
responds to
@auditscotland.bsky.social
report on GPs Listen👇from 2.18
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Good Morning Scotland - 27/03/2025 - BBC Sounds
The latest news from home and abroad, along with sport, travel and weather updates.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002983f
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BMA Scotland
8 months ago
🗣️'I hope one day I can go back to telling people of the varied and satisfying life of an A&E doctor rather than feeling like I have to apologise at every turn' Read this powerful insight from
@lailahpeel.bsky.social
following HIS review of NHSGGC A&E👇
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Working in A&E: Apologies a “routine part” of interactions with patients
Most of the time when people learn that I’m an A&E doctor they either follow up with questions about the weirdest things I’ve seen, or more commonly with comments about how it must mean that no…
https://bmascotland.home.blog/2025/03/28/working-in-ae-apologies-a-routine-part-of-interactions-with-patients/
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Dr Iain Kennedy
BMA Scotland
8 months ago
In the third blog published for
#InternationalWomensDay2025
, Dr Joanna Bredski looks at the need to advance and celebrate women’s equality both in the UK and worldwide 👇
#IWD2025
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IWD2025: We need to advance and celebrate women’s equality both in the UK and worldwide
Professor Heather Cox Richardson, historian at the Boston College writes compellingly about the misogyny used by the current Trump administration “in the attacks on American democracy”. She e…
https://bmascotland.home.blog/2025/03/08/iwd2025-we-need-to-advance-and-celebrate-womens-equality-both-in-the-uk-and-worldwide/
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Dr Iain Kennedy
BMA Scotland
8 months ago
In the second of our blogs for
#InternationalWomensDay2025
, Dr Mary Anne Burrow reflects on a personal experience of the NHS and why it highlights the need for better access to healthcare for women 👇
#IWD2025
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IWD2025: My experience shows why women need better access to healthcare
As IWD approaches it caused me to reflect on one of my own recent experiences and how women may face challenges in accessing healthcare. As a woman patient who consulted her GP about some concernin…
https://bmascotland.home.blog/2025/03/08/iwd-my-experience-shows-why-women-need-better-access-to-healthcare/
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Dr Iain Kennedy
BMA Scotland
8 months ago
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 👇
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IWD2025: Accelerating Action for Gender Equality in BMA Scotland
This International Women’s Day, we are called to Accelerate Action—to move beyond simply acknowledging gender inequality and to actively implement the strategies that drive real progress. For the B…
https://bmascotland.home.blog/2025/03/08/iwd2025-accelerating-action-for-gender-equality-in-bma-scotland/
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Dr Iain Kennedy
BMA Scotland
8 months ago
Today marks
#CovidDayofReflection
Five years on since the pandemic BMA Scotland chair
@driainkennedy.bsky.social
reflects on the impact on NHS workers and the issues that still exist today ⬇️
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Scottish Chair on Covid-19 Day of Reflection: “every single NHS worker stood up to be counted, when it counted”
Covid-19 day of reflection
https://bmascotland.home.blog/2025/03/06/scottish-chair-on-covid-19-day-of-reflection-every-single-nhs-worker-stood-up-to-be-counted-when-it-counted/
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Dr Iain Kennedy
BMA Scotland
9 months ago
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 ⬇️
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Scottish Chair on Covid-19 Day of Reflection: “every single NHS worker stood up to be counted, when it counted”
Covid-19 day of reflection
https://bmascotland.home.blog/2025/03/06/scottish-chair-on-covid-19-day-of-reflection-every-single-nhs-worker-stood-up-to-be-counted-when-it-counted/
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BMA Scotland
9 months ago
NEW BLOG:
@chrissmith2211.bsky.social
, Scottish RDC Chair on the disaster surrounding incorrect MRCP results. "I have rarely been angrier in almost 3 years as chair of SRDC, than I have been this week." Read more, including how we are supporting doctors here:
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Scottish RDC chair update: the BMA is working round the clock to support doctors after MRCP exam disaster
I have rarely been angrier in almost three years as chair of SRDC, than I have been this week. If you’ve not heard about the growing disaster surrounding MRCP Part 2 then the headline is: highly qu…
https://bmascotland.home.blog/2025/03/01/scottish-rdc-chair-update-the-bma-is-working-round-the-clock-to-support-doctors-after-mrcp-exam-disaster/
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Dr Iain Kennedy
The BMA
9 months ago
We've written to the Federation of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the UK following the recent error regarding 2023 MRCP exam results. Transparency and collaboration are essential to supporting those affected — delays or missteps will only worsen the damage. Read the letter here👇
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The BMA
9 months ago
Immediate action must be taken to address the ‘devastating’ and ‘unacceptable’ consequences of the MRCP exams failure. Read more about the BMA's call for support 👇
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Call for MRCP exam error support
‘Catastrophic’: hundreds of doctors given incorrect exam results
https://www.bma.org.uk/news-and-opinion/call-for-mrcp-exam-error-support
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Dr Iain Kennedy
The BMA
9 months ago
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 👇
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Dr Iain Kennedy
The BMA
9 months ago
We are aware of the situation with MRCP(UK) exam results, this error is unacceptable and we stand with all affected doctors. To those impacted, help is available via our support team
www.bma.org.uk/about-us/con...
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Dr Iain Kennedy
BMA Scotland
9 months ago
🗣️ ‘This report shines a light on the harsh reality that many ethnic minority doctors in Scotland are still experiencing racism'
@sajidfarid.bsky.social
on BMA Scotland survey which found 2/3rds have experienced or witnessed incidents in the workplace Read ⬇️
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Report of BMA Scotland’s race equality in medicine survey
FULL REPORT ON THE SURVEY: Scottish Race Equality Forum reportDownload FOREWARD FROM THE REPORT: Racism and inequality are deeply entrenched issues in our society that have a harmful impact in our …
https://bmascotland.home.blog/2025/02/20/report-of-bma-scotlands-race-equality-in-medicine-survey/
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Dr Iain Kennedy
BMA Scotland
10 months ago
🗣️“There were some encouraging words in terms of direction of travel…we still lack the detail and comprehensive vision needed to make any plan a reality” Read the response from Chair
@driainkennedy.bsky.social
following the First Minister's speech on the NHS 👇
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BMA Scotland: Response to First Minister speech on the NHS - BMA media centre - BMA
Press release from BMA Scotland
https://www.bma.org.uk/bma-media-centre/bma-scotland-response-to-first-minister-speech-on-the-nhs
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Charlotte Waite
10 months ago
At the National Robotarium to hear John Swinney announce the new Scottish Gov plan for NHS recovery and renewal Good to catch up with colleagues from across medical, voluntary and care sectors today
@thebda.bsky.social
@drdmacaskill.bsky.social
@driainkennedy.bsky.social
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Undertaking an
#MBA
in my mid-50s certainly wasn’t easy, but it’s never too late to refine leadership & organisational skills. To my fellow doctors & mid-career professionals: if I can do it, so can you.
#GlobalMBA
#WarwickBusinessSchool
#LifelongLearning
#GraduationDay
10 months ago
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@hmcardleht.bsky.social
for her 16 years of fearless journalism - including the exclusive she broke when we shared with her our story of bullying in NHS Highland. Well worth reading Helen’s last Saturday analysis below👇
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Dr Iain Kennedy
BMA Scotland
10 months ago
❗REMINDER ❗ A consultative vote on the pay offer for SAS doctors in Scotland will open this Monday, 13th January Join our webinar on the pay offer taking place at 7pm on the same day You can submit your questions in advance Find out more here 👇
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SAS doctors in Scotland: Pay offer webinar
As I hope you will be aware, in the new year a consultative vote will open on the pay offer the Scottish Government has provided for SAS doctors. If you need to read more – there are all the detail…
https://bmascotland.home.blog/2024/12/23/sas-doctors-in-scotland-pay-offer-webinar/
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BMA Scotland
10 months ago
✍️ Read the New Year message from BMA Scotland chair Dr Iain Kennedy, including the findings from our survey on winter pressures. 👉99% of doctors expressed concerns about the impact of increased pressures on the NHS over winter. Read here 👇
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BMA Scotland chair’s New Year message: Scotland’s NHS will struggle to see out another New Year without ‘transformative’ reforms
It has become common for well-known dictionary brands to name a “word of the year”. When it comes to the NHS, the word I would have to choose for 2024 is ‘perma-crisis’. It sums up the consistent p…
https://bmascotland.home.blog/2024/12/31/bma-scotland-chairs-new-year-message-scotlands-nhs-will-struggle-to-see-out-another-new-year-without-transformative-reforms/
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Dr Iain Kennedy
Dr Rachel Clarke
12 months ago
So welcome to see
@rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social
focusing on NHS cover-up culture & attacks on whistleblowers. I urge him to note how doctors (like me) raising sincere safety concerns about replacing doctors with PAs are being smeared & attacked by NHS bodies.
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
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NHS bosses who silence whistleblowers face sack under government plans
Ministers to launch public consultation on regulating managers in effort to end ‘culture of cover-up’ in NHS
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/nov/24/plan-to-regulate-nhs-bosses-could-see-those-who-silence-whistleblowers-barred-for-life
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