Regional SAS committees

Regional SAS committees represent specialist, associate specialist and specialty doctors on a local basis across England. Get in touch to join a regional meeting and speak up on the issues that affect you.

Location: England
Audience: SAS doctors
Updated: Friday 13 September 2024
Voting card article illustration

​There are 12 regional SAS committees in England. Our regional representatives involve and engage with SAS doctors on a local basis, and work with the UK SAS doctors committee.

 

Overview

The regional SAS committees meet four times a year to discuss issues that are most important to SAS doctors in their respective regions.

One meeting per year is open to all SAS doctors in their region – get in touch with your regional contact for details. Other meetings are formed of representatives from each trust; generally SAS LNC (local negotiating committee) reps. If you would like to represent your trust on the committee, please speak to your IRO (industrial relations officer).

 

How to join your RSASC

There are many advantages to becoming involved in our committees. You can actively influence BMA policy-making and negotiations at regional level, represent your colleagues' voices and develop your leadership skills.

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

Local negotiating committees
  • Seats/term - every year, LNCs in England elect two representatives from each Trust within the region for a one-session term. 
  • Timeline - elections are usually held in July or August.
  • Eligibility - all SAS doctors in England who are BMA members are eligible to stand and vote in this election if they work in the relevant Trusts.  

To join or find out more about LNC elections, contact your LNC Chair in your trust or RSASC directly from the list below.

 

Eastern

Chair: Balendra Kumar
Email: [email protected]

For more information, email us or call 0203 033 3900.

.

 

London South

Chair: Sandeep Kohli
Email: [email protected] 

For more information, email us or call 020 8655 8800.

 

Mersey

Chair:  Chetan Sangani              
Deputy Chair: Tatiana Tonu      
Hon Sec: Thirunavukkarasu Viswanathan 
Email: [email protected]

For more information, email us or call 0151 709 5660.

 

Northern

Chair: Dr Abdul Kadir Yousuf
Email: [email protected]

For more information, email us  or call 0113 261 8325.

 

North Thames

Chair: Vikramjeet Chawla
Email: [email protected]

​For more information, email us or call 020 8655 8800.

 

North Western

Chair: Amit Kochhar
Deputy Chair: Madapura Krishnamurthy Shashidhara               
Hon Sec: Vipul Taneja     
Email: [email protected]

For more information, email us or call 0151 709 5660.

 

Oxford

Chair: John Edwin
Email:[email protected]

For more information, email us or call 020 8655 8839.


 

Southern

Co-chairs: Mohan Kumar and Deppa Jain 
Email: [email protected]

For more information, email us or call 0208 655 8839

 

South West

Chair: Jenny Day
Email: [email protected]

For more information, email us or call 0117 945 3100.

 

Trent

Chair: Veera Reddy Karri
Email:[email protected]

For more information, email us  or call 0121 452 7739.

 

West Midlands

Chair: Arun Menon
Email: mailto:[email protected]

For more information, email us or call 0121 452 7739.

 

Yorkshire

Co-chairs: Louis Vanderstraeten and Lawrence Atkins
Email: [email protected] 

For more information, email us or call 0113 261 8325.

Handshake 01
Women at the BMA

The BMA is working to meet the challenges that women face in the medical profession.

Stand for a BMA committee and be part of this change.

Find out more