father of three National Director of BMA Scotland
Edinburgh
Joined August 2011
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You can read more in @now_its_nora blog
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🤝Introducing new SRDC chair, Dr Callum Williams.
In his first blog, @cmwilliams99:
👏 Pays tribute to predecessor Dr Chris Smith
➡️ Gives the latest on contract and pay negs
🫵 Provides details on how to get involved
👀Read in full:
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📽️SCOTTISH CONSULTANTS:
Hear from Committee Chair Dr Joanna Bredski on the reasons why we are balloting you on industrial action.
The vote opens on October 26th - keep following for all the details.
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🚨🏴SAS docs - your committee has voted to ballot on industrial action over working conditions and pay.
When the ballot opens on Oct 26, vote yes to get the Scot Gov back to the table and into meaningful talks.
📽️Hear from your committee Chair, Dr Sine Steele here:
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🩺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
@now_its_nora
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🚨@BMAScotland 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 👇
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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’
✍️Read the blog from outgoing chair @DrIainKennedy on how @BMAScotland will scrutinise health board reform plans & support members
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📢Announcement📢
@now_its_nora has been elected unopposed as the new Chair of @BMAScotland . She will take over from @DrIainKennedy from 9 September
Read more👇
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🚨UPDATE: Senior dr pay🏴
🗣️‘We have been clear on the need to ensure the profession remains an attractive and sustainable career & 🏴can attract & retain the doctors it needs…the Scottish Gov announcement is deeply disappointing'
Read full details👇
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❗️GPs in 🏴
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👇
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‼️Doctors in 🏴
Wondering if you should join the BMA?
Here's a summary of just some of what your union has achieved in the last year.
Join before 14th to get your first 3 months free.
Your voice, your union!
bma.org.uk/join-us
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🚨Resident doctors in 🏴
August 🟰changeover 🩺
Read this blog for some tips and advice to help make the transition smoother 👇
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🗣️'They offer only a fraction of the range of services available through a traditional GP practice, but at a much greater financial cost'
🗞️BMA SGPC chair @DrIMChairSGPC comments on GP walk-in centres in @heraldscotland 👇
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🚨NEW: 🏴chair report to ARM
Read the report from @DrIainKennedy to BMA ARM 2026, reflecting on @BMAScotland successes & challenges over the past 12 months & highlighting the need to improve NHS culture for the future.
Link 👇
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‘These increases have largely been absorbed within existing medical schools, rather than through the establishment of new institutions, & without considering training capacity’
SMSC chair Joe Payne on the impact of increasing number of 🏴medical students in @timeshighered 👇
Long read: With the NHS desperate for more capacity, increasing the number of doctors entering the system seems an obvious remedy. But with the system lacking the resources to boost training places or offer permanent jobs, insiders say that the flow of extra medical graduates must be staunched. @Helen_Packer reports #medicine #highered
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🗣️'Our policy of 1 GP WTE per 1000 is achievable and will deliver the real change the NHS needs to survive and thrive and for General Practice to be the incredible career it can and should be'
🎥WATCH: SGPC chair @DrIMChairSGPC addressing UK LMC conference 2026 in Belfast 🩺
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🗳️With the Scottish Parliament election taking place today, here's a lookback at the @BMAScotland hustings event 👇📽️
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🚨GPs in 🏴
We also need you to tell us your views in the pay survey, which is closing in one week
You can find the link in this blog 👇from SGPC deputy chair Dr Chris Black, plus info on a funding webinar taking place next week
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🚨NEW: BMA Scotland manifesto
🗣️ ‘Urgent reforms and brave decisions are needed to put the NHS on sustainable footing’
🩺@BMAScotland has launched key asks for the #Holyrood2026 election
Read more from chair @DrIainKennedy & the full manifesto 👇
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John Robertson retweeted
‼️ANNOUNCEMENT – Resident doctors in 🏴
📣 Strikes next week are suspended after new pay offer from Scottish Gov following negotiations
You will have your chance to vote on it in the coming weeks
Read the full details 👇
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