BMA Northern Ireland junior doctors committee elections 2024-2026

Nominations are now open for the election of 37 voting members of the BMA Northern Ireland junior doctors committee. Members will be elected to serve for two years for the sessions 2024-2026.

Deadline for nominations: 2pm Thursday 23 May 2024.

Learn more and how to nominate yourself.

Our priorities

​The NIJDC gathers the opinions of junior doctors from health and social care trusts or the Public Health Agency within Northern Ireland. We represent junior doctors in Northern Ireland to the UKJDC. Our priorities are:

Pay

Junior doctors in Northern Ireland are undervalued, underpaid, overworked, and lacking in training opportunities. That’s why we’re fighting for fair pay and full pay restoration.

Read more about our campaign to fix pay for junior doctors.

The NIJDC gathers the opinions of junior doctors from health and social care trusts or the Public Health Agency within Northern Ireland. We represent junior doctors in Northern Ireland to the UKJDC. Our priorities are:

• To communicate the activities of the NIJDC and UKJDC to junior doctors in Northern Ireland.

• To promote the policies of JDC.

• To encourage junior doctors in Northern Ireland to take part in the medico-political process.
• To help junior doctors take action against their employers, as may seem necessary by the NIJDC.
• To liaise with the BMA (NI) office and the industrial relations officers of the BMA.
• To monitor and ensure, to the best of our ability, the enforcement of current national agreements regarding terms and conditions of service at a regional level.
• Fair interpretation of junior doctors' contracts in NI.
• That medical posts established within NI are in accordance with such workforce objectives as may exist from time to time.
• #TakeControl - We want to encourage junior doctors to better understand their workplace rights and entitlements. Our infographic outlines some key workplace rights and how you can protect them.

Our people

Chair: Dr Fiona Griffin

Deputy chairs:
Edwina Hegarty (Education, training and other issues)

Dr Steven Montgomery (Negotiations and issues relating to terms and conditions, the new deal, the EWTD and revalidation).

Our meetings

We meet four times a year to discuss the issues that are most important to doctors in training.

These meetings are open to members of the NIJDC. Non-voting committee members can also come along and participate as part of the BMA committee visitors scheme.

Next meeting date:

• Wednesday 08 May 2024 (online)

For more information, emails us or call 028 9026 9666.

How to join

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. 

Each committee has a few routes to becoming an elected member. In the case of NIJDC, this is: 

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

Nominations are now open for the election of 37 voting members of the BMA Northern Ireland junior doctors committee. Members will be elected to serve for two years for the sessions 2024-2026.

Deadline for nominations: 2pm Thursday 23 May 2024.

How to make a nomination

Nominations can be made on the BMA's online elections website. You will need to have already registered with the BMA website to access the online elections website.

To nominate yourself you must:

• be a member of the electorate of NI
• be a BMA member
• be able to communicate with and gather the views of her/his constituency as and when necessary
• Members should nominate themselves as a representative for the Trust/Agency they will be working in from 7 August 2024.

Find more details on how to nominate yourself, including details on the role of NIJDC members 

Get in touch

If you are interested in finding out more about the work of the NIJDC, email us or call 028 9026 9666.