Al Miles

Enough is enough: Scottish GPs move into dispute with the Scottish Government General Practice continues to face significant challenges in delivering the core services we so dearly want to protect for our patients. The ridiculous paradox of GP Partners having to lo…

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Stand with your surgery: Please don’t let us burn out I am a GP who genuinely loves her job. It is a challenging but wonderfully rewarding vocation. The team I work with are driven by an incredible desire to do their best for their patients. But to be…

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‘Please don’t let us burnout’

✍️ Dr Sharon Hamilton writes from personal experience on the ‘relentless’ pressures GPs are facing - and why full funding restoration is needed
#standwithyoursurgery

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🚨📽️ NEW STAND WITH YOUR SURGERY VIDEO!

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Find out about the difference our ask for #fullfundingrestoration would make for GPs and patients across Scotland.

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DDRB recommendations: Scottish GP Committee reaction I promise, one day I will write a blog that is purely upbeat and optimistic. However, and with regret, not today. That is because yesterday the Review Body on Doctors’ and Dentists’ Renumeration (m…

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UK government dropped health push after lobbying by ultra-processed food firms Exclusive: Guardian investigation reveals guidance for retailers in England changed after campaign by global food firms

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All governments are weak in the face of powerful lobbying. Big food is big corporation = psychopathic. Probably good people working in these companies, but personal morality eaten by corporate greed.

📣'Across the four nations of the UK, general practice is crumbling'

📄Read this new report which spells out why it is so important that GPs are properly valued 👇

UK LMC conference kicks off with a 4 nation address by GPC UK Chair Katie Bramall, describing the value of a GP, and the funding needed to support GPs and save the NHS. 👏👏👏

Scots GPs threaten strike in Government dispute that could cause surgery chaos Overworked medics say they have had enough as workloads are rising and budgets have fallen.

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Report of BMA Scotland’s race equality in medicine survey FULL REPORT ON THE SURVEY: Scottish Race Equality Forum reportDownload FOREWARD FROM THE REPORT: Racism and inequality are deeply entrenched issues in our society that have a harmful impact in our …

🗣️ ‘This report shines a light on the harsh reality that many ethnic minority doctors in Scotland are still experiencing racism'

@sajidfarid.bsky.social on BMA Scotland survey which found 2/3rds have experienced or witnessed incidents in the workplace

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Important issue covered by @thescotsmanpaper.bsky.social
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BMA Scotland chair’s New Year message: Scotland’s NHS will struggle to see out another New Year without ‘transformative’ reforms It has become common for well-known dictionary brands to name a “word of the year”. When it comes to the NHS, the word I would have to choose for 2024 is ‘perma-crisis’. It sums up the consistent p…

✍️ Read the New Year message from BMA Scotland
chair Dr Iain Kennedy, including the findings from our survey on winter pressures.

👉99% of doctors expressed concerns about the impact of increased pressures on the NHS over winter.

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