BMA Lothian Divsion

BMA Lothian Divsion Representing Doctors of all grades and all Branches of Practice and Medical Students in Lothian

GP Trainee conference - it’s still a great job
29/05/2024

GP Trainee conference - it’s still a great job

03/07/2022

another Annual Representative Meeting over. All of the Lothian Division representatives attending the hybrid meeting virtually, rather than in person in Brighton.
Stuart Blake was there in person, required by his being a member of the Agenda committee. Congratulations on your re-election, Stuart.
Amy Small has been elected to GPC, congratulations, Amy.
And wishing you good luck with your move to Sheffield & every success there. Thank you for all your service to the BMA & our members in Lothian and all of Scotland. The Division might well have been lost without you.

16/03/2022

UKRAINE CONFLICT It is hard to focus on the needs of doctors and medical students in Scotland when such serious events are playing out in Ukraine, and those do put things into perspective. At times…

This needs to be explained again …
06/07/2021

This needs to be explained again …

28/06/2021

We are opening a drop-in vaccination clinic for people aged 18-39. The new clinic opens tomorrow at 8.30am – 5.30pm at the RBS Younger Building. You don’t need to be registered with a GP to get your vaccine at a drop-in clinic. You can get your 1st dose, or your 2nd dose if it’s been more than 8 weeks since your first. Meanwhile our over 40 clinics are still running as normal.

For more information, including how to get there, visit http://ow.ly/Dtsx50FjNeW.

if you feel you wish to express a view ...
21/06/2021

if you feel you wish to express a view ...

9959 signatures are needed! I strongly oppose Dido Harding being appointed as Chief Executive of NHS England.

14/04/2021

Here is the press release about the Glasgow Health Hustings, from our member Lesley Morrison

For immediate release

Glasgow Health Workers to Grill MSP Candidates on Climate Credentials

*Online Scottish election hustings at 7.30pm on Thursday 22nd April

Health workers in Glasgow will be hosting a special online hustings ahead of the Scottish Elections on 6th May supported by Friends of the Earth Scotland and Medact, a global health charity working to promote universal access to health.

The hustings, called the ‘Glasgow Climate and Health Hustings’, will take place at 7.30pm on Thursday 22nd April. MSP candidates running in Glasgow will face questions from health workers based in the city on what the parties plan to do to ensure a COVID 19 recovery program in Scotland that both promotes good health in communities across the country, and helps in reducing emissions to address growing concerns around climate change. The hustings are also likely to include an international focus as Glasgow prepares to host world leaders at the COP26 climate talks this coming November.

The candidates joining the hustings are: Roza Salih for the SNP, Pauline McNeill for Labour, Jon Molyneux for the Green Party, Ade Aibinu for the Conservatives and Carole Ford for the Liberal Democrats.

The hustings follow an open letter from around 200 health workers in Scotland to First Minister Nicola Sturgeon calling on her government to establish a ‘just and green recovery’ from COVID-19.

Dr Claire Gaughan, GP and member of Greener Practice Glasgow said:

“As a healthcare professional working and living in Glasgow, I have seen first hand how COVID 19 has had a devastating impact on our communities. Whoever forms the next Scottish Government has the responsibility of ensuring a recovery program that works for the benefit of people and planet. Our recovery will be useless if it only increases emissions and deepens the climate emergency. We desperately need long-term thinking to stop us from just lurching from one health crisis to another. I really hope the candidates show this kind of thinking at the Glasgow Climate and Health hustings on 22nd April.”

Dr Lesley Morrison, retired GP and coordinator of Medact Scotland said:

“Health and sustainability should be at the core of all policy decisions, be they about housing, transport, farming or anything else which affects the welfare of the Scottish people. At this time of climate emergency, we need to know what the different parties would do to further this aim.”

10/03/2021

**Organ donation - The Law change: what you need to know**

TOMORROW 6pm-7.30pm

Open to BMA members and non-members, this webinar will answer your questions about the new organ donation legislation coming into effect in Scotland at the end of this month.

Register here:
https://register.gotowebinar.com/regi.../4557705908024271884

Saw this today, thought I should share it with you all 😷
10/03/2021

Saw this today, thought I should share it with you all 😷

This is a poster from Sheffield (I think). Very important ...
10/03/2021

This is a poster from Sheffield (I think). Very important ...

19/02/2021

As GPs on the frontline of the pandemic response, we have worked round the clock to care for those across our local communities who need us. Even before Covid and while facing serious GP retention …

from the Washington Post ... clarifies that your own individual DNA doesn’t get involved in the process at all
16/12/2020

from the Washington Post ... clarifies that your own individual DNA doesn’t get involved in the process at all

Very scary graphic - a bit like the HIV ad - it’s not just who you sleep with, it’s everyone they ever slept with ....
23/09/2020

Very scary graphic -
a bit like the HIV ad - it’s not just who you sleep with, it’s everyone they ever slept with ....

19/09/2020

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