Find your LNC
To find out more about LNCs and how to get involved in your nearest committee, get in contact using the details below.
If you’re a doctor in England, we can put you in direct contact with the BMA regional officer responsible for your LNC.
Contact us at: [email protected] or use the employment advice webform with details about where you work.
Find your local rep.
LNC Chairs are the local face of the BMA helping members with HR matters related to locally agreed policies e.g. locum rates, acting down rates, clinical excellence awards, job plans, industrial action concerns, and guiding members to other BMA support e.g. BMA regional officers, FPC (for individual advice), or guidance on the website.
The BMA has an LNC in every trust in Northern Ireland. Find out who to contact if you would like to get involved:
Belfast Trust
Dr Laurence Burke
[email protected]
South Eastern Trust
Dr Stephen Moore
[email protected]
Northern Trust
Dr David Farren
[email protected]
Southern Trust
Dr Clodagh Corrigan
[email protected]
Western Trust
Dr John Doherty
[email protected]
PHA
Dr Sinead McGuinness
[email protected]
Single lead employer
Dr Adam Flynn
[email protected]
SPPG (Strategic Planning & Performance Group) Dr Ciara McLaughlin
[email protected]
The BMA has an LNC in almost every territorial health board in Scotland and in non-territorial special health boards who employ doctors directly.
Most junior doctors will be employed by one of the lead employers in the north (NHS Grampian), east (NHS Lothian) or west (NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde), while all GP trainees and some national programmes will be employed directly by NHS Education for Scotland.
To find out what’s going on in each LNC, please use the contact details below to get in touch.
Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
TBC
If you’re not sure which LNC you should contact, get in touch at: [email protected] or use the employment advice webform with details about where you work.
BMA LNCJDS
BMA LNCJDS, also known as local junior doctors committees, are the bodies that represent junior doctors locally and replace the former BMA RJDCs (regional junior doctors committees) in Scotland.
These are subcommittees of the BMA LNCs (local negotiating committees) of the lead employer boards.
Junior doctors in Scotland are employed by one of four employer boards – NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde, NHS Lothian, NHS Grampian and NHS Education for Scotland (NES) for the duration of their training (foundation, core or specialty training programmes).
Understanding LNCJDS
Junior doctor subcommittees (LNCJDS) are established in three of the Lead Employer board LNCs:
- NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde
- NHS Lothian
- NHS Grampian
NES employed junior doctors are represented by the NES LNC.
Any junior doctor can attend LNCJDS meetings. BMA member services staff also attend to provide advice on contractual matters and to give background on issues which may have been active for some time as well as details of local engagement activities. Each year, each LNCJDS nominates representatives to SJDC (Scottish junior doctors committee). LNCJDS representatives must continue to attend their local meetings if appointed to SJDC.
LNCJDS can refer to SJDC any matters of concern, which either cannot be resolved locally (perhaps in conjunction with the other local BMA committees) or matters that may have implications for other regions and nationally.
All BMA members of the LNCJDS will be accredited as a representative of medical staff in accordance with the rules of the BMA are therefore afforded the rights of accredited representatives, including reasonable paid time off to carry out their role and training.
LNCJDS meetings
Contact your LNCJDS to find out when the next meeting will be held: