Interested in becoming a BMA Scottish resident doctor representative for 2025-2026?
The BMA is committed to ensuring our committees are diverse and representative. We encourage nominations from members who are underrepresented on our elected structures, including women, members from an ethnic minority background, LGBTQ+ members, and members who are disabled, neurodivergent or have a long-term condition.
Nominations open 9am Monday 4 August for 3 national seats on SRDC and close 12pm Friday 22 August. Go to our online elections page.
Local negotiating committees and resident doctors sub-committees (LNCRDs) has a number of seats available for local representatives who play a vital role in representing doctors' interests in the workplace. If you'd like to negotiate for and represent doctors in your workplace, get in touch with your LNCRDS contact listed under LNC meetings.
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About SRDC
The SRDC represents all doctors in training in hospitals and public health medicine practice in Scotland. Views from around the country are brought together to form national policy.
How can you get involved
In these short clips, current members of SRDC share their experiences and why they got involved:
- Ron MacDonald: Get involved with the BMA in Scotland
- Andrew Donnelly: What support will I get?
- Helen Hare: Can I really make a difference?
Read more on how to get involved in your BMA as a resident doctor in Scotland
There are lots of ways in which you can get involved and support your fellow doctors, at regional and national levels. No prior experience or knowledge is required. We will give you all the training and support you need to fully participate. Your voice can make a difference.
Get involved in the BMA by standing as an elected representative. BMA representatives play a vital role in representing doctors' interests in the workplace. If you'd like to negotiate for and represent doctors in your workplace, you could stand to become an elected representative for your LNC or LNCRDS, and to be a regional representative on SRDC. See elections details below.
There are many advantages to becoming involved in our committees. You can actively influence BMA policy-making and negotiations, represent your colleagues' voices and develop your leadership skills.
We are committed to creating an open and inclusive culture at the BMA. BMA and SRDC is committed to addressing current resident doctor representativeness. We encourage nominations from members who are underrepresented on our elected structures, including women, members from an ethnic minority background, LGBTQ+ members, and members who are disabled, neurodivergent or have a long-term condition, and those with caring responsibilities.
- What you can expect as a committee member
- Committee mentoring scheme to support the development of committee members by matching them with more experienced committee members based on their needs.
- Visitor scheme - attend meetings of SRDC for 2025-26 session
- Resident doctors have access to training and development programmes to further support them in their role.
- We provide a range of care support arrangements to allow members to fully participate in the role – this includes the BMA Family friendly fund
Our meetings
We meet four times a year to discuss issues of key importance to doctors in training.
These meetings are open to members of the SRDC only. Non-voting committee members can also come along and participate as part of the BMA committee visitors' scheme.
2025-26 committee dates:
- Tuesday 7th October 2025 (hybrid)
- Wednesday 4th February 2026 (virtual)
- Wednesday 22 April 2026 (virtual)
- Thursday 11 June 2026 (hybrid)
All meetings will take place either virtually or at:
BMA Scotland
14 Queen Street
Edinburgh
EH2 1LL.
Local negotiating committees and resident doctors sub-committees (LNCRDs)
The BMA has an LNC (local negotiating committee) in almost every health board in Scotland and has three Resident Doctor Subcommittees (“LNCRDSs”) within each of the three territorial Lead Employer Boards to negotiate with your employer on behalf of all doctors. BMA LNCRDS, also known as Local Resident Doctors Committees, are the bodies that represent resident doctors regionally and are subcommittees of the BMA Local Negotiating Committees (LNCs) of the lead employer Boards. Resident Doctor subcommittees (LNCRDS) are established in three of the Lead Employer board LNCs:
- NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde (West)
- NHS Lothian (East)
- NHS Grampian (North)
LNC meetings
There are four meetings per session which normally take place before the SRDC committee meetings. Meetings are normally scheduled for 2 hours and the LNC reps will decide on dates and at times that suit the majority.
Attend your next LNCRDS meeting - contact your LNCRDS to find out when your next meeting will be held:
- NHS Lothian (South East Scotland) [email protected]
- NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (West) [email protected]
- NHS Grampian (North) [email protected]
- NHS Education for Scotland (NES) LNC (Scotland) [email protected]
Elections
The election section below is kept up to date with details about any running elections, so make sure you keep checking it throughout the year.
Elections to the Scottish resident doctor committee are now closed. However, there is still an opportunity to attend an SRDC meeting under the BMA committee visitor scheme. (See details under our meetings above).
Our people
Chair:
Chris Smith (supernumerary)
Deputy chairs:
Ronald MacDonald & Lucas O’Donnell (responsible for negotiations)
Helen Hare & Scott McKinnon (responsible for education and training)
Voting members
North of Scotland LNCRDS
Taylor Allen-Moore
Maximillian Head Fourman
Gwen Weisner
Southeast of Scotland LNCRDS
Scott McKinnon
Conor Hughes
Andrew Donnelly
West of Scotland LNCRDS
Sabrina Blanton-Rich
Michael Deighan
Aodhan Foster
Chris Hill
Hannah Lawler
Vaclav Loffelmann
NES LNC
Rebecca Acres
Helen Mary Hare
Ronald MacDonald
Samson Ogunlarin
Directly elected national seats
Oliver David Bond
Elizabeth Sarah Chandler
Matthew Hastings
Resident doctors elected to Scottish council
Tom Dale Maclaine
Benjamin J Forrest
Catriona McAleer
Johnathan May
Lucas O’Donnell
Sharandeep Singh
Chris Smith
Rhys Taylor
Non-voting members
Chair of Scottish council - Iain Kennedy
UK RDC (resident doctors committee) chair – Melissa Sue Ryan/Ross Andre Nieuwoudt
WRDC (Welsh resident doctors committee) chair – Oba Babs-Osibodu / Peter Fahey
NIRDC (Northern Ireland resident doctors committee) chair – TBC
UKRDC mbrs resident in Scotland, if not already SRDC mbrs – N/A
UKMASC (Medical Academic Staff Committee) – TBC
Scottish consultants committee – Daniel Wilkes
Scottish GPs committee – TBC
Scottish staff, associate specialists & specialty doctors committee - TBC
Scottish medical students committee - Joe Payne
Up to two co-opted members - TBC
Observers
Scottish Academy Trainee Doctors' Group – Lindsey McVey
Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh - Navnit Makaram
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh - TBC
Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Glasgow - TBC
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