Our priorities
The focus of the BMA Welsh council follows the three key aims of the UK council. These are:
- keeping the public healthy
- valuing current and future doctors and supporting them and how they work in a pressurised environment
- health services that deliver excellent care and address current pressures.
Our people
The Welsh council ensures the voices of the medical profession in Wales are heard. There are 15 elected and voting members of the council.
Chair: Dr David Bailey
Deputy chair: Dr Iona Collins
Chair
David Bailey
Deputy chair
Iona Collins
Representatives for consultants
Kinnari Mehta
Amol Pandit
Iona Collins
Philip Banfield (WCC chair)
Representatives for GPs
David Bailey
Gareth Oelmann
Om Aggarwal
Representatives for junior doctors
Josie Cheetham/Evan Sun (WJDC co-chairs)
Vacancy
Representatives for SAS doctors
Raj Nirula
Anser Anwar
Julie Jones
Ali Nazir (WSASC chair)
Representatives for students
Virginia Dale
Ellen Davies (WMSC chair)
Representatives for public health doctors
Stephen Monaghan
Michael Thomas (WCPHM chair)
Representatives for retired members
Anthony Turley
Farookh Jishi
Other
Michael Rees
Observer
Mr Andy Burgen (Patient Liaison Group)
Our meetings
Welsh council meets four times a year, with meetings open to Welsh council members.
Dates for the 2020-21 session:
- Wednesday 7 October 2020
- Wednesday 20 January 2021
- Thursday 22 April 2021
- Wednesday 16 June 2021.
All meetings take place between 10.30am and 4.30pm and are usually held at the BMA Cymru Wales office.
BMA Cymru Wales
5th Floor
2 Caspian Point
Caspian Way
Cardiff Bay
Cardiff
CF10 4DQ
The executive committee of Welsh council or chair's group (comprising the chair of Welsh council, and craft committee chairs) meet on an ad hoc basis to deal with urgent business between these times.
Our terms of reference
To consider any and all matters of specific relevance to the medical profession and healthcare in Wales. Welsh council shall determine policy and action where the application is exclusive to Wales.
Welsh council (whether carrying delegated powers or not) shall take all reasonable steps to implement policy decisions of the association and no action shall be taken by Welsh council or any sub-committee, which may affect materially the interests of another part of the profession without full prior consultation with the parties concerned.
With voting rights: the chairmen of the Welsh consultants committee, general practitioner committee Wales, Welsh staff grades and associate specialists committee, Welsh committee for public health medicine and community health, Welsh junior doctors committee, Welsh medical academic staff committee, forum of Welsh local negotiating committees, and Welsh medical students committee.
Without voting rights: the president of the BMA, chairman of UK council, chairman of the representative body, the treasurer and members of UK council whose electoral zone is Wales, limited to the duration of their UK office and while having a registered address in Wales.
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With voting rights: 15 directly-elected members who shall, by the application of electoral constraints, broadly reflect the distribution of the profession in Wales between:
- those engaged or employed wholly or mainly in the following nine professional groupings: general practice, hospital consultants, staff grade doctors and associate specialists, doctors in training grades, academic medicine and/or research, medical students, public and community health medicine, retired members, and armed forces members plus those members in practice but not covered by the other specified professional groupings; and
- the three principal geographical regions of Wales, namely North Wales, Mid and West Wales, and South East Wales; together with up to three co-opted members who shall offer Welsh council such ongoing expertise that cannot otherwise be met by the ex-officio and directly elected membership.
Without voting rights: a number, to be determined by Welsh council, of observer members.
Elections
Elections to Welsh council have now concluded.
Members were elected for a three year term. The next elections will take place in 2023.
A vacancy has arisen for a doctor in a training grade member of Welsh Council. Nominations open on 19 October until noon on 30 October 2020. Find out more information and how to nominate yourself.
Read more about Welsh council elections.
Get in touch
We are happy to answer any queries, give advice or help on any matter related to Welsh council.
Write to:
BMA Cymru Wales
5th Floor, 2 Caspian Point
Caspian Way
Cardiff Bay
Cardiff
CF10 4DQ
Telephone: 029 2047 4646
Fax: 029 2047 4600
Email: [email protected]