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  • Our Principles
    • How We Treat Your Money – Expenses and Honoraria
  • Who We Are
    • Emma Runswick
    • Jo Sutton-Klein
    • Kayode Oki
    • Becky Acres
    • Marguerite O’Riordan
    • Theo Habbick
    • Chris Smith
    • Vicky Theakston
    • Jen Barclay
    • Philip Pearson
    • Dervla Ireland
  • BMA UK Council Elections 2022
  • Reports
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    • 2019
    • 2021
  • Opinions
    • Abortion in Northern Ireland
    • Organising 101: Recruitment
    • BMA Expenses
    • BMA Ambassador Scheme
    • Rest & Recuperation – Gains During Coronavirus Crisis
    • BMJ Independence – ARM
    • Medical Student Rep Training
    • Pay and BMA Surveys
    • Pay When Rotation Has Been Cancelled
    • UK Medical Licensing Assessment
    • Time to Withdraw from the Joint Statement?
    • World Medical Association Questions
    • What Union Should Medical Associate Professionals Be In?
    • Spousal Expenses – Update

Our Principles

We are a politically left-wing group of doctors and medical students who organise together. We stand for:

  • *Rank and file organisation* – workplace level organisation is key, with active reps. We will push for resources and training, and a focus on recruitment and organising to increase our industrial strength and improve the lives of members.
  • *Democracy and transparency *– the BMA should be easy to engage with and have an active internal life. We are happy to share our arguments and votes for scrutiny, and continue to campaign for more open decision making. We will be transparent with our use of BMA members money.
  • *Fighting for our members and the NHS* – our members and our health service are our priorities. We want good conditions of work and study, and we believe that means fighting for the NHS to remain publicly provided, publicly and well funded, and publicly accountable too. We feel the same about higher education, and have fought against marketisation particularly with regard to fees and privatisation.

In order to achieve these aims as a group we communicate prior to/during meetings to shape and make the most of the agenda, make recommendations and highlight candidates in elections that share these aims

This is not a secret group therefore anyone that agrees to the above and wishes to join would be welcome to providing there’s no evidence they don’t support those things.

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  • Slowly Winning the Arguments on Pay
  • Rest & Recuperation – Gains During Coronavirus Crisis
  • Time to Withdraw from the Joint Statement?
  • Pay When Rotation Has Been Cancelled
  • Abortion in Northern Ireland
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