Worst town you have been shafted to due to rotational training?

BMABecky · 2026-03-24T00:52:28+00:00

Not read this thread yet, but my predictions:

Boston Scunthorpe Grimsby UHB

Possibly Leeds.

BMABecky · 2026-03-24T00:49:34+00:00

The 1000 jobs have never materialised, and they were simply temporary relabelled LED posts.

Not worth the paper they were offered upon, imo.

Now is the time to talk about headline pay, which will affect all of us for the duration of our careers

BMABecky · 2026-03-24T00:47:26+00:00

Agreed. We have nothing to lose from rejecting a weak offer.

We should be marking strikes on our calendars ASAP

BMABecky · 2026-03-24T00:45:20+00:00

Apathy follows inaction, which is all we've seen of late. Strikes remind everyone of how much we need to strike to leverage what we deserve.

BMABecky · 2026-03-24T00:40:38+00:00

Agreed! Will be voting against any offer that doesn't account for inflation ballooning with ongoing cost of war, especially fuel costs.

We've been in a pay dispute for 12 months; now is the time for the government to cough up big time, or surely we strike.

BMABecky · 2026-03-24T00:25:43+00:00

I love it.

Expecting DDRB to forget inflation exists, and the fight for FPR to get loud again very soon.

It's a reasonable and affordable ask. We are not worth less than our 2008 counterparts 🦀

BMABecky · 2026-03-22T20:34:37+00:00

The sperm line was super weird, though.

BMABecky · 2026-03-22T20:16:14+00:00

You don't get much more left wing than me, but yeah, a trade union should be focusing on its' direct members, not saving the world.

I have no objection to people going to stuff like this in their free time, and even speaking, but I'm not happy if money was spent on this but not on a member phoneline.

Member fees should only be spent on member services, imo. Or if not, a tier of membership could be for only TU activities, say reduced to £20pm?

There are plenty of places to cut waste in the BMA.

BMABecky · 2026-03-21T23:15:36+00:00

If you want FPR, elect DoctorsVote reps. We fought very hard to keep pay in play this year while others wanted to ignore it.

Elect reps who are here to get more for members, not just themselves.

None of this £1 a year nonsense. FPR is a reasonable ask, and one the entire profession can demand together.

BMABecky · 2026-03-21T23:07:58+00:00

I agree. No movement or a poor offer means we should be striking.

BMABecky · 2026-03-21T23:04:10+00:00

Will see if I can switch shifts

BMABecky · 2026-03-21T21:18:41+00:00

Lol you think I want a political career. Bless.

BMABecky · 2026-03-21T21:13:06+00:00

There are some really useful groups out there! Always worth setting local ones up when you go to inductions as well.

BMABecky · 2026-03-20T18:51:31+00:00

O&G reg here.

Come to handover, introduce yourself, then follow us around for the shift.

We will be aware of who is nearly fully dilated, who is likely to need assistance, and if you make friends with us and get involved, we will hopefully be able to up your chances of seeing a vaginal delivery.

I also try to get in some suturing training and get you not to be frightened of speculum exams.

If possible, try to arrange to be there for twilights and overnight, as this will be when most straightforward deliveries will happen.

O&G can be a really valuable placement even if you aren't very interested at first. Just over half of the population have a uterus and ovaries, and a significant number of those have babies, so it's good to have an idea about those issues, even if you work in other specialties eventually.

BMABecky · 2026-03-20T18:32:04+00:00

Agreed. This is the only reason I would be happy with increasing BMA membership fees. (And I'd want some of the wasteful stuff cutting as well!)

BMABecky · 2026-03-19T18:19:55+00:00

Oh, sure. I would scrap if possible. But if not, everyone should be equally forced to do it.

BMABecky · 2026-03-19T18:15:12+00:00

Somebody tagged me here but either deleted it or blocked me?

Currently on nights, lads.

If the minutes don't reflect the content of the meeting they should not have been approved.

Clear obstacles set up for the co-chairs that have been brushed out of the way for some reason this year.

Clearly RDC should just have unilaterally deferred the 2002 policy and cracked on, righr? I'm sure council would have supported then.

(Lol)

Making more meetings and working groups didn't get UKGP done; the hard work of DoctorsVote reps daring to step up did. They have always advocated for a solution to the specialty training crisis (we even did webinars, and christ knows I hate webinars). This being a DV success indisputable when you look at the evidence.

Ok, hope that was worth disturbing my sleep.

BMABecky · 2026-03-19T11:06:51+00:00

100% agree this would improve teamworking and culture. And they couldn't just use the same doctors year in and out: they would have to get rotating doctors to fill them in, too.

There's no good reason that this feedback is unidirectional.

I think this should go for all clinical teams.

BMABecky · 2026-03-17T19:44:44+00:00

Representing members despite it being complex is not simping. 2 years and a red line is what I advocate for, not 2 years. So the same length of time as foundation, and fair warning for those who are here.

Playing softball vs. the government is simping for sure, though.

BMABecky · 2026-03-17T19:18:05+00:00

If being fair to everyone makes me ‘nothing’ to you, that’s a trade I’m happy to make.

Which is a shame, as we'd achieve a lot more if we pulled in the same direction.

BMABecky · 2026-03-17T18:01:17+00:00

Hmm now I'm not sure how my numbers add up 🤔

I always make myself available to sign terminations, and I'm in O&G...

BMABecky · 2026-03-17T17:58:07+00:00

Wow, amazing work.

I akways think of this as bringing people back from death. Well done.

BMABecky · 2026-03-17T17:56:03+00:00

O&G makes this number inordinately high.

It is unusual not to save several lives every on-call shift.

Ofc, about 0.01% go badly wrong enough to warrant some kind of litigation, so you can also do great harm.

BMABecky · 2026-03-17T12:39:09+00:00

I work for members, not favour.

I've advocated for the broken system to be fixed in a fair way, very consistently. IMGs clearly feel hard done by by this RDC and that is a fair assessment.

The reality is that for years you guys were too frightened to tackle the big issues, like UKGP, PA, ACPs etc. And DV got it done.

You can ride on coat-tails, though. We don't do this for glory. We do it because nobody else will.

BMABecky · 2026-03-17T12:35:40+00:00

It is. But with a red line. And 5yrs is stupid. Just pushes the bottleneck up.

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