Scottish council

A list of members of the BMA Scottish council, including voting and non-voting members.

Chair
Lewis Morrison

Deputy chairs
Sue Robertson
Nikki Thompson

Chair SGPC, Andrew Buist
Chair SCC, Graeme Eunson
Chair SJDC, Lewis Hughes
Chair SSASC, Bernie Scott
Chair SMSC, Matthew Murtagh (deputy) Sam Watson
President of the BMA, Professor Raanan Gillon
Chair of representative body, Helena McKeown
Treasurer of the BMA, Trevor Pickersgill
Chair of council (UK), Chaand Nagpaul
Chair, Scottish LNC Forum, Sue Robertson

Members of council (UK) whose electoral zone is Scotland
Peter Curry
Peter Bennie
Iain Kennedy

Scotland
Mary Anne Burrow
Graeme Eunson
Mahesh Perera
Alan Robertson
Amy Small
Nikki Thompson

General practitioners
Stuart Blake
Andrew Buist
John Ip
Iain Kennedy
John Kyle
Laura McBrearty
Alan McDevitt
Kirsty Robinson

Consultants
Simon Barker
Chris Barrett
Chris Greenhalgh
Iain TR Kennedy
Jacqui McMillan
Ewan Olson
Anne Marie Sinclair
Ruth Stephenson

Juniors
Ellie Davidson
Alisdair Gilmour
Lewis Hughes
Timothy Gray
Jamie Nash
Lailah Peel
Chris Sheridan
Jagdeep Singh

Medical academics - vacant
Medical students - Catriona McVey
SAS doctors - Sue Robertson
Other craft not represented - Peter Curry
Retired - Colin Currie
Immediate past chair (for one year after demitting office as Chairman) – N/A
Appointed members where the chair of a craft committee has an elected seat – vacant
Co-opted members - to be confirmed
Observers – chair, Academy of Royal Colleges and Faculties in Scotland – Derek Bell

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.