
Chris Smith
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Chair, BMA Scottish Resident Doctors Committee. BMA Scottish Council. He/Him.
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Today the emerging crisis of medical unemployment was highlighted to First Minister during Kaye Adams Morning show This scandal will see doctors out of work in an understaffed system where patients can find it harder to get appointments A🧵 on how & why BMA Scotland are tackling it

TL;DR for this 🧵 on BMA Scotland's work on the emerging scandal of medical unemployment: 🧑⚕️We need UK & Scottish Govs to vastly increase training posts 🏥We need Boards to be funded to employ people locally on good terms 🔍Tell us your story here: forms.office.com/pages/response…

🗣️'We are concerned that without urgent action, the problem of medical unemployment will rapidly escalate into a crisis' Chris Smith on the concerns around resident doctors struggling to get jobs 👇 Please fill in our survey if you are affected -bmascotland.home.blog/2025/04/29/sco…

ATTENTION: Resident doctors in 🏴 ⌛ Time is running out to help us investigate concerns about medical unemployment Our survey on the issue is closing soon - please fill in now if you are affected Link to survey & read more from Chris Smith 👇 bmascotland.home.blog/2025/04/29/sco…

“I’ve spent 5 years in medical training and then 3 years in GP training. And I have struggled to find employment” Dr Cheska Ball – BMA GP Reg Committee co-Chair – shares why we need to #endGPunemployment now.

Scottish resident drs are the only group for whom the DDRB does not have a remit for recommendation Anything like 4%+£750 would clearly be unacceptable from Scottish Government Pay negs must start ASAP & keep us on course for Pay Restoration as per our 23/24 deal: bmascotland.home.blog/2025/05/22/pay…

📣 ‘The Scottish Resident Doctor Committee in Scotland is clear: Full Pay Restoration is a principle that we will not abandon’ SRDC chair Chris Smith responds to the DDRB pay recommendation Read more 👇 bmascotland.home.blog/2025/05/22/pay…

If I worked in England, I would be voting to strike in Resident Doctors ballot The DDRB has failed: their recommendation would lead to a tiny uplift, with no plan in place to achieve Pay Restoration In Scotland, we must continue on our trajectory at pace to avoid a similar outcome


A national ‘exploratory’ initiative will see the Scottish government work alongside the NHS, communities of doctors and unions to inform the development of Scotland’s medical workforce over the next two decades. BMA Scotland RCGP Scotland Chris Smith healthandcare.scot/stories/4173/n…