Victoria Shotton

blow in Glaswegian. wife to Al, mum to Jess. Proud deep end GP, member of BMA Scottish council since 2023, Glasgow LMC committee member 2024/28. SGPC 2025/28

[BMA Scotland @BMAScotland]

🚨NEW BLOG: GPs in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Read the latest from SGPC on updated workforce funding guidance which provides clarity for practices on how this year’s investment is intended to be used & implemented.

Link 👇

https://t.co/mlDkm9uFPB

[BMA Scotland @BMAScotland]

As the new @scotgov cabinet settles in, @BMAScotland would like to thank former health secretary @neilcgray for listening to the concerns of Scotland’s doctors & doing his best to improve the working lives of doctors to enable them to look after patients 🩺

[BMA Scotland @BMAScotland]

🗣️'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 🩺

[Victoria Shotton @shotts1983]

I fall in this category and am very lucky that I work in a supportive practice that fully understands what happens when I have a flare or issue. However I know that not everyone is as lucky- so it’s really important to know your rights and who can assist when an issue occurs.

[BMA Scotland @BMAScotland]

🚨ICYMI

✍️'Providing reasonable adjustments at work is not a special favour for disabled doctors – rather it is a legal duty of employers'

Read the blog from deputy SCC chair Dr Tamasin Knight on support for disabled and neurodivergent doctors 👇

https://t.co/jELCWzsdal

[Victoria Shotton @shotts1983]

@Staples1955 All that proves is the current government don’t understand the terminology or how general practice works. But all the best with hoping this all works out

[Victoria Shotton @shotts1983]

New GP walk-in clinic treats 183 patients in five weeks- as expected, a monumental waste of money that would’ve been better invested in core services. Absolutely shameful and another example that this was just an attempt to secure votes https://t.co/RmAJXpTHLf

[Victoria Shotton @shotts1983]

@Staples1955 I do- but do you understand what flagship means? This is not a pilot.

[Victoria Shotton @shotts1983]

https://t.co/ABfDDuJBX9

[BMA Scotland @BMAScotland]

NEW: Consultants in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

‘To ensure we are properly valued with a fair pay offer, we need you and we need your support’

Read the blog 👇from SCC chair Dr Joanna Bredski on the launch of a new pay survey following the latest recommendations from the DDRB

https://t.co/3NBkfAUk5h

[Victoria Shotton @shotts1983]

This funding deal is very welcome and hopefully transformational. Thanks to @DrIMChairSGPC and the full neg team, and all @BMAScotland for their incredibly hard work delivering this funding.

[BMA Scotland @BMAScotland]

‼️GPs in Scotland🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

🎥WATCH: SGPC chair @DrIMChairSGPC explain more on the additional funding reaching general practice in 26/27

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[Victoria Shotton @shotts1983]

GPs in Scotland: further details of funding restoration deal confirmed https://t.co/oTTxYZjZ3Q

[BMA Scotland @BMAScotland]

➡️Want to find out more about the work of @BMAScotland?

➡️Come to our informal session on Thurs 26 March in Edinburgh

➡️The in-person session is particularly aimed at women, but all medical students and doctors are very welcome

Details ⬇️

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https://t.co/FOKigTZWbk

[BMA Scotland @BMAScotland]

Would you like to influence the key issues facing doctors in Scotland? If so, you should consider nominating yourself for election to the BMA Scottish council.

You have until 7 April to nominate yourself to one of 35 voting seats 👇

https://t.co/TTDiEC0QzP

[BMA Scotland @BMAScotland]

🗣️ ‘I remember feeling really helpless in the past about the situation for us as workers…now getting involved I feel empowered & like really can make a change’

❔Thinking about getting involved in the BMA?

🎥 Watch Dr Kim Rollinson talk about her experience

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[Victoria Shotton @shotts1983]

Whatever your thoughts on the decision- it is clear tonight that no MSP made their decision lightly. All decisions were well considered and that is all we can hope for from elected officials. We need to prioritise better palliative care funding treatments and research.

[Victoria Shotton @shotts1983]

Such a travesty that patients are more unwell on long waiting lists and resident doctors are crying out for speciality training. These bottle necks in training progression must desperately be sorted- otherwise we are losing a talented generation to abroad https://t.co/1Q5TE3x0ku

[BMA Scotland @BMAScotland]

🗞️ICYMI: Coverage of our new report on the pressures on medical education in Scotland in @heraldscotland
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https://t.co/FELjkAMScv

[BMA Scotland @BMAScotland]

PENSIONS🚨: The SPPA is offering additional tax sessions webinars for those who missed the sessions in January.

They are for scheme members who may be impacted by Annual Allowance as a result of the 2015 Remedy and are on Wed 18 Mar, 1pm and Thurs 19 Mar at 10am.

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🗣️'Students sitting on the floor for lectures, anatomy laboratories full to the brim, overcrowded ward rounds'

🚨A new @BMAScotland report is warning overcrowded classes are putting medical education standards in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 ‘at serious risk’

Read more 👇

https://t.co/juNDi9eVXC

[BMA Scotland @BMAScotland]

Ever wondered how the we shape our priorities and support members?

Our Gender Equality Group is running sessions to help you find out. In particular we hope to break down barriers for women and de-mystify how to get involved.

Find out more and sign up:

https://t.co/FOKigTZWbk