🩺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 @noramc.bsky.social

❗️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 👇 bmascotland.home.blog/2026/09/09/s...

SGPC update: Sign up to a webinar on sustainable working guidance and the latest on NHS reform

The funding deal, secured with your support last year, has done a lot to create some optimism for the profession. However, there are plenty of reasons to remain cautious. The Scottish Government’s …

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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 👇 bmascotland.home.blog/2026/09/09/s...

Scotland’s consultants vote to ballot on industrial action

Today, I can confirm that the Scottish Consultants committee has voted to prepare to ballot you – our members – on taking industrial action over both our working conditions and our pay. The c…

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🚨BMA Scotland 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 👇 bmascotland.home.blog/2026/09/07/w...

What should BMA Scotland do for women doctors and medical students?

The BMA Scotland Gender Equality Group is looking at how we can better support women doctors and medical students across Scotland. We are keen to focus our work and resources on way that delivers t…

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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’ ✍️Outgoing chair @driainkennedy.bsky.social on how BMA Scotland will scrutinise health board reform plans & support members Read 👇 bmascotland.home.blog/2026/09/04/h...

Health board reform – BMA Scotland will scrutinise plans and support members

This week, the Scottish Government announced that Scotland’s 14 territorial health boards would be reduced to just two, in what the First Minister himself said would be “the most significant struct…

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📢‘Structural reform must not come at the expense of the immediate need to address the challenges the NHS faces’ BMA Scotland responds to Scottish Government #ProgrammeforGovernment #PFG announcement Read the full comment from @driainkennedy.bsky.social 👇 www.bma.org.uk/bma-media-ce...

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Press release from BMA Scotland

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🩺 Meet Dr Nóra Murray-Cavanagh, who will become the next BMA Scotland chair in September 📽️ Watch to find out her thoughts on taking up the role 👇 @noramc.bsky.social

📢Announcement📢 @noramc.bsky.social has been elected unopposed as the new Chair of BMA Scotland. She will take over from @driainkennedy.bsky.social from 9 September Read more👇 bmascotland.home.blog/2026/08/27/h...

Honoured to serve as your new Scottish Council Chair

NOTE: Dr Nóra Murray-Cavanagh has been elected unopposed as the new Chair of the British Medical Association’s Scottish Council, the first woman to take up the post for more than 60 years. She will…

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🚨IMPORTANT UPDATE🚨 Consultant and SAS doctors in Scotland SCC and SSASC have voted to enter into formal dispute with the Scottish Government Read the blog for full details 👇 bmascotland.home.blog/2026/08/18/u...

UPDATE ON SENIOR DOCTOR PAY: Moving into formal dispute.

Following on from the disappointing outcome of our recent meeting with the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Angela Constance MSP – at which she informed us of her intention to impose the DDRB re…

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🚨UPDATE: Senior dr pay Scotland 🗣️‘We have been clear on the need to ensure the profession remains an attractive and sustainable career & Scotland can attract & retain the doctors it needs…the Scottish Gov announcement is deeply disappointing' Full details👇 bmascotland.home.blog/2026/08/12/u...

UPDATE ON SENIOR DOCTOR PAY: Next steps considered after “deeply disappointing” decision to impose DDRB recommendation

We are jointly writing to you with an update as promised on the meeting of SCC and SSASC representatives with the new Cabinet Secretary. Frustratingly, it is not the positive news we hoped to be ab…

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❗️GPs in Scotland New SGPC guidance on sustainable working 🩺 ✍️‘The aim is to help practices recognise hidden or unsupported work... & develop working patterns that are safer for patients, fairer for teams and more sustainable for the future’ Read👇 bmascotland.home.blog/2026/08/10/g...

GPs in Scotland: New guidance on sustainable working

We know that general practice remains central to the sustainability of the NHS, yet for more than two decades it has operated under growing and increasingly unsustainable pressure. Practices have a…

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🚨Resident doctors in Scotland August 🟰changeover 🩺 Read this blog for some tips and advice to help make the transition smoother 👇 bmascotland.home.blog/2026/08/04/r...

Resident doctors: Top tips for August changeover

August changeover can be an incredibly busy time for everyone.  With almost all resident doctors in Scotland rotating on the first Wednesday in August it’s hard to escape it, including our non-resi…

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@bmascotland.bsky.social GP committee chair Dr Iain Morrison on how the Scottish jobs boom is attracting GPs from England struggling to find work. Full story: www.gponline.com/scottish-job...

🚨NEW – GPs in Scotland Read the blog from SGPC deputy chair Dr Chris Black on GP IT reprovisioning covering: 👉Action being taken by SGPC on concerns raised 👉Background to the implementation of Vision 👉Lessons to be learned Link 👇 bmascotland.home.blog/2026/07/20/g...

GP IT reprovisioning: practices need more than promises

As GPs, I don’t need to tell you how vital it is we have reliable IT systems that work for us and patients. Put simply, clinical systems in general practice are not background machinery. They are t…

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❗️UPDATE The latest blog from SCC chair Dr Joanna Bredski has now been updated with news on meeting with the Cabinet Secretary Find out more 👇 bmascotland.home.blog/2026/07/15/c...

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🚨NEW: Consultants in Scotland ✍️Read the blog from SCC chair Dr Joanna Bredski for the latest on campaigning to improve the working lives of consultants in Scotland 👇 bmascotland.home.blog/2026/07/15/c...

🚨NEW: Consultants in Scotland ✍️Read the blog from SCC chair Dr Joanna Bredski for the latest on campaigning to improve the working lives of consultants in Scotland 👇 bmascotland.home.blog/2026/07/15/c...

Consultant update: “unless our pay and working lives as a whole are improved, we will go on losing senior doctors”

Summer holidays are upon us, and I hope that many of you will be able to get a well-deserved break with family and friends. We certainly need it as the pressure in the NHS is pretty relentless and …

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🗣️'The changes needed to improve waiting times in emergency departments must address the pressures across the whole health and care system' SSASC deputy chair Dr Stuart Strachan comments on A&E waiting times in Scotland on Sunday 🗞️ Link👇 www.scotsman.com/news/politic...

SNP overseeing 'national scandal' as 2.4m wait too long at A&E in Scotland

Almost 2.5 million Scots have waited too long at accident and emergency departments since the height of the Covid pandemic six years ago - amid fears that John Swinney’s SNP government is overseeing a...

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🚨NEW: Scotland chair report to ARM Read the report from @driainkennedy.bsky.social to BMA ARM 2026, reflecting on BMA Scotland successes & challenges over the past 12 months & highlighting the need to improve NHS culture for the future. Link 👇 bmascotland.home.blog/2026/06/24/a...

ARM 2026 Scottish Council report: improving culture will mean an “NHS that is safer for patients and doctors”

Report for ARM 2026 from Dr Iain Kennedy, Chair, BMA Scotland Council: With my term of office as chair of Scottish Council coming to an end this autumn, it is with some sadness but a…

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❗️NEW BLOG: SAS doctors in Scotland Read the update from SSASC chair Dr Sine Steele on: 👉Pay survey 👉Sustainable working 👉Regrading latest Link 👇 bmascotland.home.blog/2026/06/09/u...

Update for SAS doctors in Scotland: pay survey, sustainable working and latest on regrading

The last time I updated you on the work of our committee we were awaiting the outcome of the Scottish Parliamentary elections and the establishment of a new Scottish Government. Well, there’s been …

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🚨NEW: Consultants in Scotland Read the latest blog from SCC chair Dr Joanna Bredski on: ➡️Response to DDRB pay survey ➡️Prioritising a safe & sustainable working week ➡️Next steps Link 👇 bmascotland.home.blog/2026/06/05/c...

Consultants need a safe and sustainable working week

A baby in Scotland requires to be transferred for urgent specialist surgery to England. A planned airlift is cancelled because this would mean the pilot working longer than their shift and so breac…

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🚨NEW BLOG: GPs in Scotland Read the latest from SGPC on updated workforce funding guidance which provides clarity for practices on how this year’s investment is intended to be used & implemented. Link 👇 bmascotland.home.blog/2026/05/27/w...

Workforce funding guidance: supporting implementation in practice

It was great to see so many of you at the Webinar for Workforce funding. It was one of the best attended events we have held, and shows the level of engagement the funding offer from the Scottish G…

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🚨Congratulations to Angela Constance as the new Cabinet Secretary for Health & Care We look forward to renewing a positive joint working relationship & making progress on issues that are critical for our shared ambition of ensuring NHS Scotland is sustainable for generations to come

🚨ICYMI ✍️'Providing reasonable adjustments at work is not a special favour for disabled doctors – rather it is a legal duty of employers' Read the blog from deputy SCC chair Dr Tamasin Knight on support for disabled and neurodivergent doctors 👇 bmascotland.home.blog/2026/04/14/k...

Know your rights: support for disabled and neurodivergent doctors

A few years ago, I realised that I am disabled – and that the rights detailed in the Equality Act 2010 are for me. The legal definition of disability means that many doctors who are disabled, have …

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❗️BMA members 👉Limited places left for our hustings event tomorrow night - still time to sign-up. 👉If you can’t be there in-person but would like to ask a question, you can submit one in advance for potential inclusion. 👉RSVPs & questions to: press.scotland@bma.org.uk

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🚨BMA members 🚨 Your chance to quiz politicians on Scotland’s health priorities Join @bmascotland.bsky.social hustings with reps from all main parties on Wed 22 April in Edinburgh from 6.30pm-8.30pm 👉Places are limited & on 1st come 1st served basis 👉RSVP to press.scotland@bma.org.uk

🚨BMA members 🚨 Your chance to quiz politicians on Scotland’s health priorities Join @bmascotland.bsky.social hustings with reps from all main parties on Wed 22 April in Edinburgh from 6.30pm-8.30pm 👉Places are limited & on 1st come 1st served basis 👉RSVP to press.scotland@bma.org.uk

🚨NEW: BMA Scotland manifesto 🗣️ ‘Urgent reforms and brave decisions are needed to put the NHS on sustainable footing’ 🩺BMA Scotland has launched key asks for the #Holyrood2026 election Read more from chair @driainkennedy.bsky.social & the full manifesto 👇 bmascotland.home.blog/2026/04/15/b...

BMA Scotland manifesto published: “serious, long-term and radical NHS reform” urgently required

There’s now only a matter of weeks to go until Scotland goes to the polls to vote in the next cohort of MSPs. In many ways, it’s a very different landscape from the last Holyrood election five year…

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🚨NEW BLOG GPs in Scotland: confirmatory details of workforce funding and non-staff expenses for 26/27 are coming your way soon… ❔Questions❔ Read this blog from SGPC chair @drimchairsgpc.bsky.social which also links to a useful guide👇 bmascotland.home.blog/2026/03/24/g...

GPs in Scotland: further details of funding restoration deal confirmed

You will have recently received (or soon be about to receive) the confirmatory details of the workforce funding and non-staff expenses for 26/27. We are sorry this has taken some time to get out to…

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Come meet me and some brilliant BMA Scotland women next Thursday 26/3/26 at Queen Street @bmascotland.bsky.social There’s still space on the visitor scheme for Scottish Council during the day, and then the face to face event afterwards #WomenInMedicine #Representation #DiversityMatters #ElectHer

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➡️Want to find out more about the work of BMA Scotland? ➡️Come to our informal session on Thurs 26 March in Edinburgh ➡️The in-person session is particularly aimed at women, but all medical students and doctors are very welcome Details ⬇️ 🧵2/2 bmascotland.home.blog/2026/03/02/s...

🗣️ ‘I remember feeling really helpless in the past about the situation for us as workers…now getting involved I feel empowered & like really can make a change’ ❔Thinking about getting involved in the BMA? 🎥 Watch Dr Kim Rollinson talk about her experience ⬇️ 🧵1/2

🗣️'Students sitting on the floor for lectures, anatomy laboratories full to the brim, overcrowded ward rounds' 🚨A new BMA Scotland report is warning overcrowded classes are putting medical education standards in Scotland ‘at serious risk’ Read more 👇 bmascotland.home.blog/2026/03/12/b...

Beyond Capacity – report lays bare challenges facing medical students in Scotland

First, I want to thank all of you who responded to our survey on medical school capacity. It is your insight that has helped us compile the report we are publishing today. Unions of course are noth…

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