This deeply concerning story notes for the past decade there has only been roughly one applicant per vacancy for consultant-level oncology in Scotland.

It chimes with what we hear from members on the shortage of doctors and the urgent need to tackle this crisis.
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“Studies have shown higher rates of burnout, stress, anxiety, and depression among ethnic minority healthcare professionals.'

🩺Sajid Farid writes on breaking the silence over mental health challenges among ethnic minority doctors – read the blog here👇

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Don't miss this report from the frontline of the Scottish Deep End Project in this month's The Doctor Magazine featuring Glasgow GP David Blane 👇

At the royal today to support this wonderful event for doctors returning to work after maternity/paternity leave! BMA Scotland EA Robert Ronald will cover all employment related topics including HR &pay considerations, rota adjustments, LTFT. Lovely to see all the babies 👶

🩺“The UK has the largest female health gap…Women are underrepresented in clinical trials...Many women’s healthcare services are fragmented.'

ICYMI: SCC deputy chair Dr Joanna Bredski writes about the need to face the extent of inequality 👇
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I predicted this would happen over a year ago, it’s also happening in England, we need more GPs and that requires more funding to core general practice to meet patient demand dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

📰BMA Scotland chair Dr Iain Kennedy is quoted in a column by John Sturrock KC in The Times and The Sunday Times Scotland today on the subject of “Time for our leaders to end our corrosive culture of blame”👇

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💪 “The current, and hopefully continued, success of minimum unit pricing should be a rallying call to go further and save more lives.” - Dr Iain Kennedy BMA Scotland

A vital service for doctors NHS Practitioner Health

( 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 “Workforce Specialist Service”)

If we look after doctors, they will look after you

Read what Clare Gerada has to say - it’s important and life saving 👇

13% of doctors are ‘very likely’ to move abroad in the next year, and another 17% ‘fairly likely’ to do so.

The GMC’s survey findings should raise loud alarm bells for government.

Read our press release on the new figures. bma.org.uk/bma-media-cent…

🧵“If we cannot retain skilled staff within the NHS we don’t really have hope for a world leading health service.”

Deputy chair of SJDC and Scottish Council Hugh Pearson on BBC Radio Scotland this morning discussing a new GMC survey on doctors wanting to leave the UK.

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🚨 New blog alert - for SAS doctors in🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Committee chair Dr Sine Steele updates on pay.

✍️ 'If Scotland is not an attractive place for senior doctors to work, then the NHS in Scotland will never be on a sustainable footing.'

Full blog ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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On #IWD we published a series of blogs from some of our inspiring female medics

so ... 🚨*ICYMI*🚨

🗣️'Advice given was ‘of its time’, and usually given in kindness, but resulted in many women avoiding surgical specialties.' Jacqui McMillan

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ICYMI – here’s recap on a number of new blogs we published in the run-up to Easter…🧵
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DAUK is deeply saddened to hear the news that our dearest friend and colleague Dr Jenny Vaughan has died.
Jenny was a founding member of DAUK, a past chair, and absolutely lived and breathed the Association.

Paul Johnston, Chief Executive of Public Health Scotland writes for #NHS2048 on the importance of prevention and the importance of targeting poverty & obesity to reduce demand on our health system, as well as having a positive social and economic impact ⬇️

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Today we celebrate the professionalism and dedication of all doctors working across the UK.

Share your thoughts and pictures below. #NationalDoctorsDay

Physician associates must be supervised by GPs, says NHS England

(& we helped make this happen #RCPEGM & not ANY of the regulators #JustSaying ) theguardian.com/society/2024/m…

SJDC chair Chris Smith updates on our work to hold the 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Gov to commitments made in 2003 pay negs.

✍️'Full Pay Restoration remains the most important goal for our members, and we are expecting the SG to continue delivering on the commitments made.'

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Nice effort, nice words. Same words we have heard for years.
I’m waiting for one of these doctors to be in the public domain, unshackled from any over bearing threat to talk us through their concerns, the history of raising them and when they are happy with what’s happened.