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The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges and Faculties in Scotland - known as the "Scottish Academy"is now on twitter. @RCGPScotland @AoMRC @RCPEdin @RCSEd @rcpsglasgow

Calling all 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 anaesthetists! Use your vote Dr Daphne Varveris in the @RCoANews elections to have your views represented. Voting closes 15.12.22 @qeuhanaesthesia @qeuhccm @GPeriop @AAAnaesthetics @PRManaes @uhmtheatres @UHMAnaesthesia @Gaswegians @GJanaesresearch @NWosart

Long-awaited details of the government’s voter ID scheme have now been released, including details of which IDs will be accepted at the polling station. The list contains plenty of options for older voters, but few for younger voters. electoral-reform.org.uk/voter-id-list-…

@rcpsglasgow . @milesmack very glad to be attending with many other @ScotAcademy members. Fascinating event and much more that we could be doing.

Welcome to everyone at today’s President’s Conference: Sustainability in Healthcare. We have fantastic speakers and programme coming up throughout the day.

Any GPs out there who fancy an exciting change? How about working in a beautiful semi-rural part of Scotland? We're recruiting for a salaried GP or partner to join us in April 2023. Details below: dollarhealthcentre.org.uk/info.aspx?p=2 @DollarHC

Some good explanations of where some of the support for nursing professionals emerged from, by @historycompany

@DrGregorSmith Thanks Gregor for excellent discussion.We look forward to working with you on the next steps.

Grateful to Presidents of medical Royal Colleges and @ScotAcademy for discussion on sustainability, considering both preservation of universal healthcare but also the climate emergency. In #RealisticMedicine we have means of taking action and still providing values based care.

#bjgplife The suicide hierarchy - an expression of social injustice manifest as tragedy bjgplife.com/the-suicide-hi… via @austinoc_austin @BJGPjournal fyi @IMEweb @IMEPostgrad @johnspicer3 @andrewmoscrop @FacultyHP pls RT and discuss

@BMAScotland @DrIainKennedy We at @ScotAcademy are looking forward continued close working. Congratulations!

🗨️"I feel very proud to have been chosen by my peers to lead BMA Scotland during an extremely challenging time for our NHS."🗨️ 🗣️Congratulations to @DrIainKennedy who is the chair-elect of BMA Scotland. He will take up his new post on August 30th. 👇 bma.org.uk/bma-media-cent…

This is Brexit

@ScotAcademy, @RPSScotland, @RCGPScotland & other royal colleges have come together to call for action to reduce the environmental impact of prescribing healthandcare.scot/default.asp?pa…

We are delighted to publish our joint statement on reducing the environmental impact of prescribing today with @ScotAcademy . Read our news story on this here ⬇️ rpharms.com/about-us/news/… And read the joint statement in full here ⬇️ rpharms.com/scotland/susta…

We are delighted to join with colleagues across healthcare in calling for action to reduce the environmental impact of prescribing. The climate crisis is a public health crisis and bold action is required to mitigate its impact. Read more➡️ bit.ly/3a2C9Oe

Support @AlcoholFocus who will launch their impressive alcohol marketing report on Thurs: bit.ly/3bBCYy4 Industry campaigns that promote drinking reinforce unhealthy relationships with alcohol and can lead to its earliest enduring harm; Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders.

Excellent statement from Figo figo.org/us-supreme-cou…

We are delighted to announce that Professor Rowan Parks has been elected as the next President of The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. See our full announcement here: ow.ly/lSAn50JGyI2

@AndrewBuist17 #putpatietsfirstbackgenralpractice

@PRCSEd @RCSEd Looking forward to Rowan joining us.

Delighted that Professor Rowan Parks has been appointed as new President of @RCSEd, taking over the role in November 2022. Huge congratulations to Rowan on his success.

FPH and @Drug_Science have sent a letter to UK Government signed by nearly 100 organisations, calling for an amendment to the Misuse of Drugs Regulations to make it easier to pilot overdose prevention centres. Colleagues are invited to sign. #PilotOPCs fph.org.uk/news-events/fp…

Delighted to welcome @carriemacewen as GMC Chair. We look forward to working closely together. gmc-uk.org/news/news-arch…