A pleasure to be part of a panel today at the @britishima.bsky.social conference in Glasgow talking about antiracism in the workplace, workforce planning failure, and GMC processes. Really interesting discussion and nice to meet one of our new Council members, Huda, afterwards too!

I’m pushing my luck sending my voting form for the BMA’s Council election back this late. Don’t miss your chance - post yours back ASAP! It must be back with Civica by 27 April ⏳⌛️

🚨 NEW: Joint Statement from National TULO on the right to strike. labourunions.org.uk/right-to-str...

Marching today in solidarity with all those who oppose hate and division in our society at the @togetheralliance.bsky.social March in London

A pleasure to meet @werahobhouse.org.uk, Simon Opher, @shockatadam.bsky.social and other MPs today about the risks Palantir poses to our NHS - patients trust us with their most personal information and we have to protect their privacy. Thank you @martinwrigley.bsky.social for sponsoring the event!

A reminder to LEDs. Please take a few minutes to answer this quick survey and help us better understand your experiences 👇

The BMA@bma.org.uk · 7mo ago

Are you a Locally Employed Doctor? We want to hear from you. Our survey of LEDs in England and Northern Ireland will help us understand your experiences, and support you better. www.surveymonkey.com/r/LED_Survey...

Today's Covid Inquiry report recounts the devastating impact on doctors, and our patients.   Watch BMA council chair Dr Tom Dolphin speak to press this afternoon

Don't forget to return your BMA Council voting pack - I'm standing for Council again, so I can continue to fight for doctors and medical students. We need a strong union, and I'm driving forward our strategy to put power in the hands of the profession again.

Great pleasure to address an all-member open meeting in Belfast tonight. We talked about the shocking health disparity between NI and the rest of the UK, the lack of training posts, the pull of Sláintecare, and how the BMA’s new, strong collective voice can start to address them together ✊

Doctors/med students: fill in @bma.org.uk's survey on advanced practice roles and their potential impact on training and for employers to extend their scope into work only doctors should be doing. It closes this Thurs at 4pm so be quick! (It takes ~10 mins) www.surveymonkey.com/r/MVXCB99

After a stormy arrival on Friday, had a full day yesterday meeting members on the Isle of Man; followed by Manx Care’s Chief Exec & MD; then the Chief Minister, Treasury Minister, Health Minister and DHSC’s Chief Officer. Productive conversations, progress on important issues:

It's twenty years today since I started my anaesthetic training, at Charing Cross Hospital. In that time I've looked after many thousands of patients, placed innumerable cannulas, injected rivers of propofol, and stuck a pine tree's worth of needles into people. 🧵

in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today

FOI reveals that within the first week in office, Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson requested a meeting with Sex Matters to discuss "mutual priorities and ways to work together going forward"

“This conclusively demonstrates that this widely publicised concern as part of the culture war against trans people is not supported by documented evidence from service providers," @translucent.org.uk

Fascinated by the fruit options at lunchtime 🍎🍐🍌🍇🍋

Consultant Anaesthetist and BMA Council Chair @tomdolphin.bsky.social talks about the importance of collective action and local organising. If we want medicine to continue to be the viable career, the profession needs to behave as a group. Solidarity matters. #WSM2026

A message for doctors and medical students for the New Year (and check your inboxes 📩): youtu.be/G8uZqQW51wY?... Thank you for all you did in 2025 for @bma.org.uk, our profession and our patients, and wishing everyone a peaceful and happy 2026. 🕊️

A message for doctors and medical students for the New Year (and check your inboxes 📩): youtu.be/G8uZqQW51wY?... Thank you for all you did in 2025 for @TheBMA, our profession and our patients, and wishing everyone a peaceful and happy 2026. 🕊️

Tom Dolphin's New Years Message | British Medical Association

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Substitution of expertise with enthusiasm doesn’t work when so much of what our NHS clinical staff do is based on years of training, exams and experience. @bma.org.uk agrees with @rcn.org.uk that we shouldn’t be replacing expert clinicians the way the NHS is currently rushing to do.

Shaun Lintern@shaunlintern.bsky.social · 9mo ago

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: English hospitals that cut registered nurses saw more deaths while those hiring nurses saw more patients survive. Even when hospitals tried to fill gaps with non-nurses, deaths still went up. Major new study exposes dangerous NHS variation: www.thetimes.com/article/7eed...

Well done @bmacymru.bsky.social on the new resident doctors' contract! Meanwhile in England residents fight on in their campaign and at the same time @bma.org.uk continues work on all the other issues our members care about. This is what an active, member-led union with amazing staff looks like!

Heading Londonwards from visiting QMC in Nottingham to talk to obstetric doctors there (and management) about strikes and derogations. Clearly a department facing huge challenges, with doctors run ragged to make up for deep-rooted problems. Thank you for the frank discussions. @mbdoc.bsky.social

Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.

Dismal framing. Every aspect of most asylum seekers’ lives is controlled & paid for by the Home Office. They can’t work, are told where to live & have no autonomy or dignity. So they aren’t *choosing* to use taxis & don’t need to be “banned” from doing so. The HO just needs to get its act in order.

Government to ban asylum seekers from using taxis

The ban is set to come in February and any exemptions will have to be signed off by the Home Office.

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Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.

Back here for the second time in a week to talk to an MP about the residents’ dispute and doctor substitution by non-doctors on rotas. Bumped into the Consultants Ctte co-chair in Parliament’s reception on her way in to meet another MP - literally a revolving door of @bma.org.uk -MP meetings today!

Today @tomdolphin.bsky.social met @ruthcadbury.bsky.social, Chair of the Transport Select Committee in Parliament. Discussions included pressing issues facing doctors and the Government’s upcoming road safety strategy, including measures to lower the UK blood alcohol limit for driving.

Reading the report really took me back to those days all doctors and NHS workers will remember; knowing it was coming, knowing it was going to be bad. The parts about the opportunities squandered - not just early on but repeatedly - to reduce the impact are really hard to read.

The BMA@bma.org.uk · 10mo ago

“Lives could have been saved.” Today’s Covid Inquiry report lays bare the Government’s catastrophic failure to manage the pandemic, as our council chair @tomdolphin.bsky.social told Sky News

Heading back home now from the GP conference in Manchester. Good meeting at the MRI afterwards; local members sold on the BMA strategy - they really get the importance of shifting to an organising model and how it gets wins in the workplace and on professional issues. @bma.org.uk

The Govt has suggested a pay uplift of just 2.5% for doctors next year, well below inflation. With resident doctors striking next month over pay and jobs, it is “frankly indefensible that yet another Government is once again suggesting real-terms pay cut for doctors," says @tomdolphin.bsky.social