BMA Q and A: leadership and autonomy

BMA SAS committee chair Amit Kochhar answers your questions What are you looking forward to at the BMA SAS (staff, associate specialists and specialty doctors) annual conference in May? The theme of our conference this year will be leadership and autonomy. We want to use the opportunity to encourage SAS doctors to make use of their leadership skills and, equally important, to consider ways that we can encourage employers to facilitate autonomous working. We will hear from two high-profile speakers — GMC chair Terence Stephenson and King’s Fund director of leadership development Vijaya Nath, who will both be talking to us about the key theme of the conference. At a vital time for the medical profession, we’ll also be debating and developing policy on pay, terms and conditions, the health of the nation and professional  development.   The BMA recently surveyed SAS doctors. What did the survey discover? The survey showed that about half of SAS doctors would recommend their career to others. There are some things that are going very well and that we can build on. For example: Six in 10 SAS doctors now have an up-to-date job plan Seven in 10 are working autonomously Eight in 10 were able to take their full study-leave allowance. However, the flip side is that there are also some significant problems and a lot of SAS doctors wouldn’t recommend their career to others. Problems we identified include: Three-quarters of SAS d...
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