Scottish council

Representatives for GPs:

Angela Dixon
Iain Kennedy
Andrew Cowie
John Ip
Laura McBrearty
Patricia Moultrie
Paula Rogers
Nora Murray-Cavanagh

Representatives for consultants:

Ewan Olson
Carol Macmillan
Christopher Barrett
Richard Levin
Zahid Mahmood
Jacqui McMillan
Simon Barker
Sajid Farid

Representatives for junior doctors:

Kanastana Yasotharan
Alisdair Gilmore
Lewis Hughes
Zack Hassan
Timothy Gray
Lailah Peel
John Patrick Kelly
Neil Jordan Ramsay

Representative for medical students:

Callum D George

Representative for retired members:

Philip Cachia

Representative for SAS doctors:

Thisara Weerasuriya

Representative for other branches of practice:

Charles Saunders

National seats:

Mary Anne Burrow
Graeme Eunson
Alan Robertson
Sue Robertson
Amy Small
Peter Terry

There are 35 voting members of Scottish Council, elected for a three-year term of office.

• Eight members engaged wholly or mainly in general practice, including those in private general practice but excluding general practice registrars, to represent and be elected by members in general practice in Scotland of whom: two for East, four for West, two for North.
• Eight members employed wholly or mainly as senior hospital doctors to represent and be elected by members who are senior hospital doctors in Scotland of whom: two for East, four for West, two for North.
• Eight members who are hospital doctors in the training grades or general practice registrars to represent and be elected by members who are hospital doctors in the training grades and general practice registrars in Scotland of whom: two for East, four for West, two for North.
• One member employed wholly or mainly in the staff and associate specialist group elected by members from those groups in Scotland.
• One member employed full-time in a university or in medical research, elected by members from those groups in Scotland.
• One medical student member elected by all medical student members in Scotland.
• One retired member elected by retired members in Scotland.
• One member from other branches of practice not represented, elected by those groups in Scotland (eg civil service and armed forces, occupational health).
• Six members resident in Scotland to represent and be elected by all members in Scotland.

Note

• East covers: Fife, Lothian, and Scottish Borders.
• West covers: Argyll and Bute, Ayrshire and Arran, Dumfries and Stewartry, Dumbarton, Forth Valley, Greater Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire and Wigtown.
• North covers: Angus, Caithness, Dundee, Grampian, Inverness, Orkney, Perth and Kinross, Ross and Cromarty, Shetland, Sutherland and Western Isles.

Non-voting members are the chief officers of the association; the chairs of the SCC, SGPC, SJDC, SMASC, SSASC and SMSC; chair of Scottish LNC forum,  those members of Scottish council who are also members of UK council and the immediate past chair of Scottish council for a period of one year after demitting office as chair. The chair of the Academy of Royal Colleges and Faculties in Scotland is also a non-voting member.

Scottish council has the power to co-opt two additional non-voting members where specific expertise is required.