🚨ATTENTION: Senior doctors in Scotland 🗳️Your ballot is now open Vote YES and return a strong mandate to bring the Scottish Government back to the negotiating table. Read the blog 👇for full details on how to vote & where to find more information bmascotlandhome.wpcomstaging.com/2026/10/26/s...

Senior doctors in Scotland: your ballot on industrial action over working conditions and pay is OPEN

Today our industrial action ballots for consultants and SAS doctors in Scotland open. It’s a significant moment. Only by standing together can we make the voices of senior doctors in Scotland heard…

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Cutting doctors’ pay won’t keep them in the NHS. The DDRB must show its independence and recommend what patients and the NHS need, not what the Government is prepared to pay. Full statement: www.bma.org.uk/bma-media-ce...

The Government have recommended yet another sub-inflationary pay rise for an already beleaguered medical profession. Cutting pay is not the way to tell a workforce you value them. www.bma.org.uk/news-and-opi...

Pay offer ‘beggars belief’, says BMA

Government plans to propose below inflation pay rise for doctors next year

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Plans to allow PAs to see undifferentiated patients and expect resident doctors to supervise are irresponsible and poorly evidenced. Writing in the BMJ, our council chair @tomdolphin.bsky.social has set out the sorry story behind these baffling plans: www.bmj.com/content/395/...

The BMA has written to Professor Leng objecting to draft clinical protocols permitting physician assistants to see patients who have not been assessed by a doctor.

When doctors don't feel safe speaking up, everyone loses. The GMC's latest survey found that 67% of SAS and locally employed doctors felt reporting bullying or harassment would make no difference. Read more: thedoctor.bma.org.uk/articles/doc...

📣Calling All GP Trainees📣 BMA GP Registrar Regional elections have concluded. ‼️The Northern Ireland seat remains vacant‼️ and is *open to expressions of interest.* You must be a BMA member to apply. 📝Please email: gpregistrars@bma.org.uk Closes 5 October

Your family doctor is expected to provide appointments, treatment, prevention, and ongoing care all for as little as 36p a day. General practice is being stretched to breaking point. Sign the new petition and help protect your family GP 👉 bma.doctor/saveGPs

The June 2026 pay deal for resident doctors is starting to come into effect - on top of the DDRB uplift, the nodal point uplifts in the deal will apply from this month, meaning most resident doctors should also receive a lump sum of back pay. (1/2)

Revealed: the unsafe doctor substitutions putting patients at risk. We need NHS leadership to wake up. Hospitals knowingly using doctor substitutes, following years of shambolic workforce planning by successive governments, is a serious threat to patient safety.

A clear majority of consultants voted for strike action in July, and we're finally getting round the table for talks with Government. Helen Neary explains that, although talks are going well, we still need more movement on key issues. All our concerns need to be addressed to avoid industrial action.

Well, I for one am an economist who supports rent controls! Here’s why 🧵: Markets only work well if: -buyers & sellers have roughly equal power -producers respond to price signals & expand supply in response to scarcity -buyers can walk away if prices get too high

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Ash Sarkar: "The one thing the govt could do to improve the lives of young people is introduce some rent controls" Govt minister Jonathan Reynolds: "No economist supports rent controls" There you have it. Are you a young person trapped paying exorbitant rent? The Labour govt says f**k you.

Dr Sridharan Suresh took his own life after being notified by the GMC that he was under investigation. We are supporting an appeal all the way to the Supreme Court in a pivotal case regarding duty of care.

You did the work. You should get the pay. Got your first payslip in a new role? Take a closer look. 👀 💷 If you're a member use the Pay Checker 👉 bma.doctor/3SvyUoT

🩺 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

BREAKING 🚨 | Unions tell @icr.ac.uk board: end the strike, value your workforce and protect our national resource. Trade Unions representing 800,000 workers have just sent the below letter to the Executive Board and Trustees of the ICR. Share the letter below 👇 #StrikeMap

📩 Yesterday resident doctor members in Wales were sent an email with advice on how to navigate employment matters relating to the new contract ❓Please read this, speak to your local reps or use our webform if you need more support www.bma.org.uk/about-us/con...

BMA advice form - Contact us - BMA

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BREAKING: Today the Health Secretary agreed to a round of rapid, focused talks with our Consultants Committee to make progress in our dispute in England.

📣 Don't miss important updates. If your employer, workplace or contact details have changed, update your BMA membership record today. We need to be able to contact you about developments affecting our pay dispute in Wales. ✅ Update your details today authgateway.bma.org.... #TrainPayRetain

Thank you to every GP practice already taking part in collective action in England.

Here are our next steps.

More than 350 new jobs, instead of the 250 initially planned. This is just the first step towards ending the resident doctors job crisis in England. More info on the new jobs, and the BMA’s work for you, is in members’ email inboxes now.

SAS doctors in England, whether you voted or not, we want to hear your views on the ballot. Shape the next steps of the campaign to improve your working life. Answer our survey today. www.surveymonkey.com/r/SAS_member...

More than 200 resident doctors will begin new pilot placements in England today, marking the first step towards much-needed reform of an absurd rotational training system. It's hoped these pilots will reduce the unnecessary waste and disruption caused by the current system.

Rotational training improvement pilot schemes begin

Doctors leaders say system, which sees them travelling long distances, is ‘well overdue for reform’

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This month we're asking practices in England to bring patients on board with our campaign to show support for General Practice. Look out for these posters arriving at your practice soon. And share the petition now: www.change.org/p/save-your-...

We are calling for doctors’ titles to be protected in law. We must see an end to doctor replacement by physician assistants and advanced practitioners too. www.bma.org.uk/our-campaign...

This deeply concerning report from the Society of Radiographers once again shows the shocking rise of racism faced by NHS staff. We stand in solidarity with radiographers subject to this appalling behaviour.

NHS radiographers report rise in overt racist abuse by patients

Survey reveals medics were called ‘monkeys’ and ‘dirty foreigners’, and patients refused to be seen by black or Asian staff

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The NHS is in the midst of a corridor care crisis. The Government must not let its previous commitments slide.

👋Croeso / Welcome to doctors starting on the foundation training programme 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🏥You will be on a brand new contract in Wales which is different to colleagues elsewhere in the UK ❓Visit our contract page to learn more including FAQs bit.ly/4wss4yZ

✊Trade Union win 🩺Doctors working in Wales, the BMA alongside Trade unions representing NHS Wales staff have secured the following agreed guidance to protect your employment rights in the event of disruption to travel ⬇️