Dr Iain Kennedy
@driainkennedy.bsky.social
Highland Doctor. Chair of The BMA Scottish Council @the-bma.bsky.social
✈️ Way home to Inverness now after two very intensive days at BMA House, London. Especially enjoyed meeting more new @bma.org.uk council representatives and setting our strategy for delivering for our members across the 4 nations 🩺 Back to the surgery tomorrow morning.
🩺 Looking forward to 2 days @bma.org.uk Tavistock Square London 🗣️ My focus will be supporting BMA Council to optimise the terms & conditions of all doctors & the student experience 🏥 @TheBMA we look after doctors so that doctors can provide the best possible care for patients
🗣️'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: 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: 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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🗣️'These long waits in A&E are a sign of just how much pressure the whole system is under' SCC chair Dr Joanna Bredski comments in @scotsman.com article on A&E waiting times 👇 www.scotsman.com/news/politic...
SNP under pressure over 'perpetual crisis' in A&Es as waits soar and targets missed
John Swinney’s government is under fire after waiting times for A&E departments soared - with the situation facing patients branded ‘unacceptable’
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🚨PAY VOTE RESULT Resident doctors in Scotland have voted overwhelmingly to accept the improved Scottish Government offer YES – 97.1 % TURNOUT – 62.4 % For the full results and more details, read 👇 bmascotland.home.blog/2026/02/11/r...
Resident doctors in Scotland vote to accept pay offer
After months of negotiations that culminated in a strike ballot and then ultimately an 11th hour breakthrough that saw strikes suspended, Scottish Resident Doctors have voted resoundingly to accept…
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REMINDER - SAS doctors in Scotland ❗Important deadline looming ❗ Read full details 👇
BMA Scotland @bmascotland.bsky.social · 9mo ago🗓️DEADLINE REMINDER: SAS doctors in Scotland ❗New regrading process If you apply before 31 January & are successful then your regrading and the associated pay will be backdated to 1 August 2025. Read the blog ⬇️ for more details & info on support available bmascotland.home.blog/2026/01/23/s...
🗓️DEADLINE REMINDER: SAS doctors in Scotland ❗New regrading process If you apply before 31 January & are successful then your regrading and the associated pay will be backdated to 1 August 2025. Read the blog ⬇️ for more details & info on support available bmascotland.home.blog/2026/01/23/s...
SAS doctors in Scotland: important deadline approaching
I fear it is far too late to wish you all a happy new year. However, given this is the first time I have been in touch in 2026, I will wish you all the best for the rest of the year to come, combin…
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Read SGPC chair @drimchairsgpc.bsky.social in this article in @theferret.scot examining the pressures on GP services Link👇 www.theferret.scot/why-cant-i-g...
Why can’t I get an appointment with my GP?
The pressing need to address difficulties the Scottish public reports in getting an appointment with their GP was raised in last week’s budget. So will new funding and proposals for walk-in surgeries ...
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🚨 ANNOUNCEMENT Resident doctors in Scotland The online vote on the pay offer will open next week Read the blog👇to find out: 👉 When to look out for your voting link 👉 Voting deadline 👉 How to get your questions answered bmascotland.home.blog/2026/01/21/s...
Scottish resident doctor pay vote opening – power in your hands
It has been another extremely important week since strike action was suspended by the BMA’s Scottish Resident Doctors Committee (SRDC), with a resolution being achieved, ye…
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📢 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
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
‼️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 ⬇️ bmascotland.home.blog/2025/10/10/s...
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 &…
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📣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...
The Herald@heraldscotland.bsky.social · last yr.Scots BMA chief issues bleak prognosis 👉 www.heraldscotland.com/news...
✈️ 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 🙏
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...
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🗣️“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 www.bma.org.uk/bma-media-ce...
Response to General Practice Workforce Survey - BMA media centre - BMA
Press release from BMA Scotland
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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
BMA Scotland @bmascotland.bsky.social · last yr.📣NEW BLOG: Resident doctors in Scotland 🗣️‘Our members are resolute and united' Read @chrissmith2211.bsky.social on why the Scottish Gov must avoid repeating the mistakes of Westminster when it comes to resident doctor pay negotiations 👇 bmascotland.home.blog/2025/07/17/h...
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. www.bma.org.uk/news-and-opi...
🗣️'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 👇
Holyrood@holyroodmag.bsky.social · last yr.Condition critical: Scotland's NHS is struggling to recover from the pandemic www.holyrood.com/inside-polit...
🚨 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 Read 👇 bmascotland.home.blog/2025/06/19/p...
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…
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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 👇
📻‘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 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
The Sunday Show - 15/06/2025 - BBC Sounds
News, discussion and interviews from politics and beyond.
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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.
🚨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 👇 bmascotland.home.blog/2025/06/13/t...
‘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…
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🚨📽️ 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
🗣️'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...
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.
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🚨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 bmascotland.home.blog/2025/05/26/d...
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…
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📣 ‘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 👇 bmascotland.home.blog/2025/05/22/p...
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…
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