Emma Runswick 🏳️‍🌈

Doctor👩‍⚕Trade unionist ✊🏻 Socialist ⚘ @theBMA Deputy Chair of Council 🏳‍🌈 She/Her.
#BMABallotReady

[The BMA @TheBMA]

Drink and drug driving causes harm and puts pressure on the NHS.

We've worked with a range of organisations to develop a consensus on the actions needed to tackle this issue.

Tom Dolphin gave evidence to the Transport Committee about the Government's Road Safety Strategy.

[BMA Scotland @BMAScotland]

The senior doctor workforce in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 is full of gaps - and patient safety is suffering.

The ballot for industrial action is about making working lives better - and finally getting the Scot Gov back to the table for proper negotiations on reversing this trend.

VOTE YES!

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[BMA Scotland @BMAScotland]

🚨📽️New video: SAS doctors in - your ballot on industrial action is about better working lives AND better pay.

Hear why we need you to vote YES from Dr Stuart Strachan.

Not yet a member and want to vote? You still have time - join before 30 Nov to have your say.

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[The BMA @TheBMA]

NHS pressures affect patients year-round, not just in winter. Consultants see this every day.

There’s no pressure free time to strike. But waiting won’t fix the problems facing consultants or the NHS. That’s why we're planning to strike.

[Mike Henley 🤨 @trentconsultant]

Great interview with Andy Thornley, consultant cardiologist as to why we are in dispute with government and why strikes are organised.

[The BMA @TheBMA]

Consultants across the NHS are becoming increasingly burnt out, as Dr Andy Thornley told the BBC this morning.

The Government must act quickly to address the dispute with consultants in England.

[Mike Henley 🤨 @trentconsultant]

Average salaries of £150k plus extra for out of hours is wrong. The £150k is the full time average and includes all hours over 40, all the overtime, on call and additional lists within the NHS. Base salaries are £114k to £151k max compared with Irish figures of £215k to £275k for the same number of hours at base pay.

The expansion of medical school places policy actually said that medical school places should only increase as jobs increase at least in part due to the expense of training doctors who might not have jobs to go to. We have repeatedly called for proper workforce planning, there is still no NHS workforce plan.

About 15% of UK registered drs have taken hard steps to leave UK medicine according to the GMC, the most efficient Drs are typically the ones already here and the loss of talented UK graduates and IMGs is a great detriment to patients. Roughly 84% of potential immigrant Drs chose not to come to the UK due to poor pay, working conditions and quality of life https://t.co/LDcesAwoJd

The DDRB admitted that medical pay had fallen behind comparators and needed correcting but rather than fixing this it left it to ’negotiations’. The talks have been ongoing for 18 months fruitlessly and this action represents the failure of the DDRB to correct pay and government to take the situations seriously.

Even within the UK there are great disparities with the most senior consultants in Wales effectively earning £27k more per year for the same hours and roughly £1m more during the course of their lifetimes.

A large part of the dispute is about out of hours parts of the contract, the very fact that so much work is now done by consultants at the weekend and that is not properly recognised by the contract in terms of pay or recovery time, this work represents the very hardest work we do. The author seems to be taking about the NHS of the 1980s not the 2020s.

What isn't even mentioned is the erosion of SPA time, the very time used to fix and improve our departments and the efficiency of our services. This will never be done by people with spreadsheets in Whitehall but by the highly educated professionals actually doing the job.

[BMA Northern Ireland @BMA_NI]

NI consultants and SAS doctors 🚨

We are striking for 24 hours on Monday 23 November

Join our STRIKE DAY DEMO!

🏩 Ulster Hospital
🗓️ Monday 23 November
⏰ 10am-12noon
♥️ ALL are welcome

We are striking for #FullPayRestoration ✊

Read more: https://t.co/ZTaqQ7nU8o

[James Steen @BMA_James_Steen]

📣 UNION JOB POSTING 📣

Are you an experienced organising trade unionist in London?

Do you want to help organise doctors to build power and improve their pay, terms and conditions?

If so, apply to join my @BMALondon team here!👇🏼

https://t.co/HOATFvoHKn

[The BMA @TheBMA]

Consultants in England are planning to strike on 25 and 26 November.

Here's why.

[The BMA @TheBMA]

Consultants don’t want to strike, but after 18 months without formal negotiations, they cannot wait any longer.

These strikes are planned to take place on 25 and 26 November, with Christmas Day levels of cover provided. There is still time for the Government to make progress.

[Dr Aadam Aziz @Aadam_Aziz]

We're asking for parity with other NHS staff, not special treatment.

The cost of working in London has risen. London Weighting hasn't.

London doctors, please vote in the indicative ballot and help us secure fair London Weighting for doctors.

https://t.co/1Qc4pYplTV

[Jack Fletcher @fletchjack]

In 2005…

📺 YouTube launched

🎮 Xbox 360 launched

🏆 The Goblet of Fire was in cinemas

😐 It was the last time the London weighting went up for doctors.

If you’re a BMA member in London - vote to change that 👇

https://t.co/D65OCUfzAZ

[Dr Haseena Wazir @DrHWazir]

Working overnight tonight? 🕑

The clocks go back at 2am on Sunday 25th October, so you work an extra hour if you're on across 1am to 2am.

Unless it's already built into your rota, exception report the extra time and any missed breaks. If the extra hour takes your shift over 13 hours or breaches rest requirements, it is a breach of safe working limits and penalty rates apply if you exception report it.

To claim payment, exception report within 28 days of the shift.

NHS Employers guidance, section 1.6: https://t.co/jYR8hmfVuO ⏰

[Resident Doctors @BMAResidents]

Working overnight this Sunday, 25 October?

At 2am, the clocks go back to 1am meaning you will work an extra hour

If your shift or on-call period means you work that extra hour, exception report the additional time worked and likewise for breaks not taken on time.

[BMA Scotland @BMAScotland]

Senior doctors in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
In the upcoming ballot, you have a choice of how to return your vote.
You'll receive a postal vote ✉️ in the distinctive BMA orange envelope. Return by post, or scan the QR code. For those eligible, you'll also receive an email link to vote.💻

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[Resident Doctors @BMAResidents]

Your collective action has secured additional posts across 48 training programmes, plus 32 new academic clinical fellow posts.

On top of that last year’s Round 1 competition ratios are down significantly.

This is progress, and we’ll keep fighting for even more training posts.

[The BMA @TheBMA]

We condemn these deliberate attacks against healthcare in Sudan, which are in clear violation of international law.

Healthcare is increasingly under attack in conflict zones and more must be done to stop this.

🔗Read our key recommendations: https://t.co/hbUfRz8OBu

[BMA Medical Academics @BMA_Academics]

We are seeking views from medical academics and other doctors undertaking academic activities on career progression, barriers to advancement and factors that support success in academic medicine. Your feedback will help shape future policy and advocacy. https://t.co/4YRPuCC73z

[BMA Northern Ireland @BMA_NI]

NI consultants and SAS doctors 🚨

We are striking for 24 hours on Monday 23 November

Join our STRIKE DAY DEMO!

🏩 Ulster Hospital
🗓️ Monday 23 November
⏰ 10am-12noon
♥️ ALL are welcome

We are striking for #FullPayRestoration ✊

Read more: https://t.co/bB9tgRs4FW