Selfie of me posting my BMA Council election vote back to Civica
I’m pushing my luck sending my voting form for the BMA’s Council election back this late. Don’t miss your chance - post yours back ASAP! It must be back with Civica by 27 April ⏳⌛️
Have you voted in the BMA council elections? You have one day left to get your voting papers in the post. Share this on your socials to make sure everyone gets the message and gets their voice heard.
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#StrikeMap X @nhsworkerssayno.bsky.social presents:
Doctors & Nurses Unite
Organise.
Strike.
Win.
18 May 2026| 6pm
📍The Racquet Club Hotel & Ziba Restaurant, L3 9AG
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🚨 NEW: Joint Statement from National TULO on the right to strike.
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The Treasury Committee is reviewing whether the student loan system is fair and wants to hear from doctors and medical students. But you only have a short window to tell them what it’s actually like.
PRESS REPORTS. Banning doctors from taking strike action has been discussed by senior health officials. (Source: Financial Times, 10.04.26)
This should be a huge cause for concern for all unions and professions, not just the BMA and doctors.
“The Health Secretary has in recent days been at pains to paint the BMA and resident doctors as unreasonable… If the Government is now considering banning doctors from striking as a response to us rejecting an offer, this would show who the real unreasonable party is.” Dr Emma Runswick Deputy Chair of UK Council, BMA
Banning doctors from striking would be an unacceptable assault on workers’ rights and a scandalous breach of Labour's manifesto. We've issued a response today to reports in the Financial Times. Read it here: www.bma.org.uk/bma-media-ce...
🙌WRDC Win!
📕As part of the resident doctor and dentist contract reform package, we’ve secured the following reforms to study budget for all residents regardless of whether they move to the new contract.⬇️
Orange campaign graphic with three illustrated megaphones. Text reads: “SAS Doctors in England. It’s time to make SAS voices count. Register for our campaign webinars. 16 April, 29 April, 7 May. bma.org.uk/SASpay.” BMA logo at the bottom.
SAS doctors in England.
Sign up NOW to one of our pay webinars.
You'll hear about our campaign to improve SAS doctor pay, recognition and career progression - and how you can get involved. www.bma.org.uk/saspay
Post from Unison North West with pics of striking workers on picket lines at workplaces. "It may be the day after the Easter bank holiday weekend but it's all about the strikes in Greater Manchester today; Northern Care Alliance's CCUs at Salford Royal, Oldham Royal and Fairfield in Bury are on strike as well as Porter Drivers at Greater Manchester Mental Health."
Solidarity with workers at Northern Care Alliance's CCUs at Salford Royal, Oldham Royal and Fairfield in Bury and Porter Drivers at Greater Manchester Mental Health on strike today ✊💜
This week’s @bma.org.uk strike is about the future of our NHS. Today, residents in #Brighton today us that we urgently need to end:
Doctor Unemployment
Doctor Underemployment
Doctor Pay Erosion
We back them. Send your support here: bit.ly/solidaritydo...
#StrikeMap
Today, doctors across the country are taking strike action. This dispute is driven by an entirely avoidable crisis on jobs and pay.
Resident doctors are facing a real terms pay cut and growing unemployment. No one wants to strike. But without a credible offer, doctors are left with no alternative.
We could have made a deal to avoid this strike action, but the government moved the goalposts on pay at the last minute and then removed the offer of 1000s of much needed training posts.
Dr Emma Runswick on BBC Breakfast today talking about how we need a deal that is good for doctors and patients.
Strikes cost the NHS. Money that could fund a payrise for resident doctors. Dr Jack Fletcher explains how the political choices of successive governments have led to more industrial action.
We want a credible offer on pay and jobs.
Out to support the @GMMH_NHS Drivers' Picket at 7.30 today. They are vital in the chain of clinical care, collecting blood tests and delivering meds.
They got upgraded as Band 3 in June but the trust won't pay!
Pickets all week - go to support them!
#Solidarity @unisonhealth.bsky.social
This position against medical substitution is not different from the RCN position, and your campaign, to protect the Nurse title and the role of the Registered Nurse. The fact that employers are misusing nursing colleagues does not interrupt our support for nurses and the nursing profession.
We're currently both -BMA & RCN- in the coalition on corridor care, the Obesity Health Alliance, UKHACC: examples of mutual working on professional issues.
Doctors support advanced practice where it is not substitution e.g. District Nursing, Macmillan nursing, Care Coordinator in MH, list goes on
Solidarity with our Nigerian colleagues taking strike action as their government undermines a previous settlement.
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Gosh, this is disappointing to see you share, Alison. Doctors and BMA support nurses getting better pay, and getting out of the band 5 trap. We tried to work with RCN in 22/23 and would coordinate safe action still. Our action has done better than 15 prev years of lobbying. Time to change tack?
BREAKING 🚨| They are up on our map, get ya @bma.org.uk pickets 7-13 April 2026.
We stand 100% behind all taking action.
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#StrikeMap #NHSstrike #ResidentDoctors #BMA
We are glad to see that rules preventing asylum seeker doctors from working in the NHS have been overturned. This change will see the NHS, which is in desperate need for healthcare staff, benefit from their skills and committment.
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Resident doctors have written to the Secretary of State explaining why the Government’s latest offer fell short and what must be done to improve it.
If a credible offer is made, resident doctors are prepared to postpone next week’s strikes.
Today, we've written to the Secretary of State and other UK health ministers about the lack of progress on implementing the Leng Review into Physician Assistants and Anaesthesia Assistants.
An orange graphic showing a pin on a map. The text says, "Resident doctors in England. Regional picket line locations announced."
We strike NEXT WEEK.
Follow the link in our bio to learn where and when our resident doctors picket lines are happening from 7 April. www.bma.org.uk/our-campaign...
The Government needs to deliver a fair offer for medical academics training in England. We stand in solidarity with the UK resident doctors committee who have voted to reject the Government’s offer, which falls short in addressing the pay loss built into academic training.
The pay review body’s 3.5% pay ‘uplift’ is hugely disappointing for SAS and Consultants whose value and pay have been eroded for years. Senior doctors are standing together to push this Government to commit to improvements.
On the 11 May we will open ballots for Industrial Action in England.
What the Government is recommending in their pay deal is baking-in real-term pay cuts. That is not acceptable.
We're in talks with government today to reach a deal that doctors can support, and that's good for patients, to avoid strikes.
The Prime Minister's threats of removing training places are bad for doctors and bad patients.
These threats are not a credible way to end this dispute. We're in talks with government today to reach a deal that doctors can support, and that's good for patients, to avoid strikes.
“Making threats about withholding jobs from doctors… I don’t think is a realistic way or a credible way of ending this dispute.”
Resident doctors are set to strike next week in England, after the Government shifted the goal posts during negotiations.
Dr Jack Fletcher speaks to the Today programme
Together Alliance reckon half a million showed up. We were near the front of the march with the unions bloc and when we reached Whitehall, the back of the march still hadn’t left Park Lane, it was so big
Doctors and medical students holding BMA placards and a banner that say “ Doctors against division“ and “Doctors for unity“
Marching today in solidarity with all those who oppose hate and division in our society at the @togetheralliance.bsky.social March in London
