Emma Runswick
@redrunswick.bsky.social
Resident Doctor in Psychiatry 👩⚕
Trade unionist ✊🏻 Socialist 🌹
BMA Deputy Chair of Council ⚕️ @the-bma.bsky.social
She/Her 🏳️🌈
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BSL and Deaf culture 🤙🏻
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Everton FC ⚽️
Trade unionist ✊🏻 Socialist 🌹
BMA Deputy Chair of Council ⚕️ @the-bma.bsky.social
She/Her 🏳️🌈
Will follow but unlikely to post about interests:
D&D 🧝🏾♀️🧙🏼⚔️🎲
BSL and Deaf culture 🤙🏻
Folk music 🎵🪗
Everton FC ⚽️
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Back here for the second time in a week to talk to an MP about the residents’ dispute and doctor substitution by non-doctors on rotas. Bumped into the Consultants Ctte co-chair in Parliament’s reception on her way in to meet another MP - literally a revolving door of @bma.org.uk -MP meetings today!
November 24, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Back here for the second time in a week to talk to an MP about the residents’ dispute and doctor substitution by non-doctors on rotas. Bumped into the Consultants Ctte co-chair in Parliament’s reception on her way in to meet another MP - literally a revolving door of @bma.org.uk -MP meetings today!
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1/ The medical workforce and the #SASsix, a Saturday morning thread...
The eagle-eyed among you may have spotted two related publications relating to workforce this week. Taken together, they paint a stark picture of the current medical workforce.
The eagle-eyed among you may have spotted two related publications relating to workforce this week. Taken together, they paint a stark picture of the current medical workforce.
November 22, 2025 at 8:22 AM
1/ The medical workforce and the #SASsix, a Saturday morning thread...
The eagle-eyed among you may have spotted two related publications relating to workforce this week. Taken together, they paint a stark picture of the current medical workforce.
The eagle-eyed among you may have spotted two related publications relating to workforce this week. Taken together, they paint a stark picture of the current medical workforce.
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23,000 deaths in England could have been prevented in the first wave of Covid if lockdown had started a week earlier, a new report by the Covid Inquiry has found.
Read more in The Doctor Magazine👇
thedoctor.bma.org.uk/articles/hea...
Read more in The Doctor Magazine👇
thedoctor.bma.org.uk/articles/hea...
Government response to Covid was ‘too little too late’, inquiry finds
Report says 23,000 deaths could have been avoided with earlier lockdown
thedoctor.bma.org.uk
November 20, 2025 at 8:32 PM
23,000 deaths in England could have been prevented in the first wave of Covid if lockdown had started a week earlier, a new report by the Covid Inquiry has found.
Read more in The Doctor Magazine👇
thedoctor.bma.org.uk/articles/hea...
Read more in The Doctor Magazine👇
thedoctor.bma.org.uk/articles/hea...
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Today's BMJ investigation exposes the widespread exploitation of locally employed doctors, who face dire terms and conditions and lack clear development opportunities.
We're clear the Government must urgently address this situation by mandating fair, standardised contracts.
We're clear the Government must urgently address this situation by mandating fair, standardised contracts.
A new #BMJInvestigation finds that thousands of locally employed doctors are trapped in insecure NHS contracts with no access to training, career progression, or national safeguards.
Experts warn that the NHS is effectively “behaving like a gig economy employer”
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Experts warn that the NHS is effectively “behaving like a gig economy employer”
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
November 20, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Today's BMJ investigation exposes the widespread exploitation of locally employed doctors, who face dire terms and conditions and lack clear development opportunities.
We're clear the Government must urgently address this situation by mandating fair, standardised contracts.
We're clear the Government must urgently address this situation by mandating fair, standardised contracts.
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Reading the report really took me back to those days all doctors and NHS workers will remember; knowing it was coming, knowing it was going to be bad.
The parts about the opportunities squandered - not just early on but repeatedly - to reduce the impact are really hard to read.
The parts about the opportunities squandered - not just early on but repeatedly - to reduce the impact are really hard to read.
“Lives could have been saved.”
Today’s Covid Inquiry report lays bare the Government’s catastrophic failure to manage the pandemic, as our council chair @tomdolphin.bsky.social told Sky News
Today’s Covid Inquiry report lays bare the Government’s catastrophic failure to manage the pandemic, as our council chair @tomdolphin.bsky.social told Sky News
November 20, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Reading the report really took me back to those days all doctors and NHS workers will remember; knowing it was coming, knowing it was going to be bad.
The parts about the opportunities squandered - not just early on but repeatedly - to reduce the impact are really hard to read.
The parts about the opportunities squandered - not just early on but repeatedly - to reduce the impact are really hard to read.
Good to see recognition in the @dadshiftuk.bsky.social campaign that Paternity Leave and Pay is a class issue, as well as a gender equality issue.
Dads and non-birth parents deserve time with their babies and partners, and babies and partners deserve them.
www.theguardian.com/money/2025/n...
Dads and non-birth parents deserve time with their babies and partners, and babies and partners deserve them.
www.theguardian.com/money/2025/n...
Wanna hear the one about the low-paid dad who took paternity leave?
MPs will tell ‘dad jokes’ in parliament to highlight ‘real joke’ of UK paternity leave, which is a class issue
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Good to see recognition in the @dadshiftuk.bsky.social campaign that Paternity Leave and Pay is a class issue, as well as a gender equality issue.
Dads and non-birth parents deserve time with their babies and partners, and babies and partners deserve them.
www.theguardian.com/money/2025/n...
Dads and non-birth parents deserve time with their babies and partners, and babies and partners deserve them.
www.theguardian.com/money/2025/n...
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Voices from the picket lines. 👇📣🪧
thedoctor.bma.org.uk/articles/pay...
In case you missed it, #TheDrMagazine spoke to doctors gathered in Manchester and London on Friday.
thedoctor.bma.org.uk/articles/pay...
In case you missed it, #TheDrMagazine spoke to doctors gathered in Manchester and London on Friday.
Resident doctors refuse to bow to health secretary’s ‘emotional blackmail’
Five-day strike begins as BMA demands action from the Government on pay and jobs
thedoctor.bma.org.uk
November 17, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Voices from the picket lines. 👇📣🪧
thedoctor.bma.org.uk/articles/pay...
In case you missed it, #TheDrMagazine spoke to doctors gathered in Manchester and London on Friday.
thedoctor.bma.org.uk/articles/pay...
In case you missed it, #TheDrMagazine spoke to doctors gathered in Manchester and London on Friday.
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The announcement of new asylum measures by the Home Secretary risks fuelling anti-migrant rhetoric.
We reiterate our solidarity with our colleagues, many of whom are being subjected to increasingly hostile treatment as a direct result.
www.bma.org.uk/news-and-opi...
We reiterate our solidarity with our colleagues, many of whom are being subjected to increasingly hostile treatment as a direct result.
www.bma.org.uk/news-and-opi...
November 18, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The announcement of new asylum measures by the Home Secretary risks fuelling anti-migrant rhetoric.
We reiterate our solidarity with our colleagues, many of whom are being subjected to increasingly hostile treatment as a direct result.
www.bma.org.uk/news-and-opi...
We reiterate our solidarity with our colleagues, many of whom are being subjected to increasingly hostile treatment as a direct result.
www.bma.org.uk/news-and-opi...
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Over the past five days, resident doctors have been taking to the picket lines across England.
From London to Manchester, Portsmouth to Newcastle, we’ve come together to make our voices heard.
www.bma.org.uk/our-campaign... #PayRestoration #EndTrainingCrisis
From London to Manchester, Portsmouth to Newcastle, we’ve come together to make our voices heard.
www.bma.org.uk/our-campaign... #PayRestoration #EndTrainingCrisis
November 19, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Over the past five days, resident doctors have been taking to the picket lines across England.
From London to Manchester, Portsmouth to Newcastle, we’ve come together to make our voices heard.
www.bma.org.uk/our-campaign... #PayRestoration #EndTrainingCrisis
From London to Manchester, Portsmouth to Newcastle, we’ve come together to make our voices heard.
www.bma.org.uk/our-campaign... #PayRestoration #EndTrainingCrisis
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We surveyed GPs across England to find out how these changes are impacting practices.
More than 1 in 5 practices in England responded, with 55% reporting adverse impacts on patient care from changes to online access.
These risks could be mitigated if the Government implemented relevant safeguards.
More than 1 in 5 practices in England responded, with 55% reporting adverse impacts on patient care from changes to online access.
These risks could be mitigated if the Government implemented relevant safeguards.
November 20, 2025 at 11:45 AM
We surveyed GPs across England to find out how these changes are impacting practices.
More than 1 in 5 practices in England responded, with 55% reporting adverse impacts on patient care from changes to online access.
These risks could be mitigated if the Government implemented relevant safeguards.
More than 1 in 5 practices in England responded, with 55% reporting adverse impacts on patient care from changes to online access.
These risks could be mitigated if the Government implemented relevant safeguards.
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The BMA's GP committee has repeatedly called on the Government to deliver safeguards prior to the online consultation changes on 1 October.
Yet, our concerns have been continually dismissed.
The results of this survey make it clear that we need to be heard. www.bma.org.uk/bma-media-ce...
Yet, our concerns have been continually dismissed.
The results of this survey make it clear that we need to be heard. www.bma.org.uk/bma-media-ce...
November 20, 2025 at 11:45 AM
The BMA's GP committee has repeatedly called on the Government to deliver safeguards prior to the online consultation changes on 1 October.
Yet, our concerns have been continually dismissed.
The results of this survey make it clear that we need to be heard. www.bma.org.uk/bma-media-ce...
Yet, our concerns have been continually dismissed.
The results of this survey make it clear that we need to be heard. www.bma.org.uk/bma-media-ce...
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“Patients need doctors and doctors need jobs”
Today, the Resident Doctors Committee has written to Wes Streeting MP to ask the Government to resume talks and work with us to agree a viable deal.
Without movement on pay and jobs, we’ll be left with no choice but to return to the picket lines.
Today, the Resident Doctors Committee has written to Wes Streeting MP to ask the Government to resume talks and work with us to agree a viable deal.
Without movement on pay and jobs, we’ll be left with no choice but to return to the picket lines.
November 19, 2025 at 5:16 PM
“Patients need doctors and doctors need jobs”
Today, the Resident Doctors Committee has written to Wes Streeting MP to ask the Government to resume talks and work with us to agree a viable deal.
Without movement on pay and jobs, we’ll be left with no choice but to return to the picket lines.
Today, the Resident Doctors Committee has written to Wes Streeting MP to ask the Government to resume talks and work with us to agree a viable deal.
Without movement on pay and jobs, we’ll be left with no choice but to return to the picket lines.
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Resident doctors in England are not ‘morally reprehensible,' to be on strike today, as Wes Streeting puts it. This is about fair pay, pay that's down more than a fifth since 2008.
Read more in #TheDrMagazine 👇
thedoctor.bma.org.uk/articles/pay...
Read more in #TheDrMagazine 👇
thedoctor.bma.org.uk/articles/pay...
November 14, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Resident doctors in England are not ‘morally reprehensible,' to be on strike today, as Wes Streeting puts it. This is about fair pay, pay that's down more than a fifth since 2008.
Read more in #TheDrMagazine 👇
thedoctor.bma.org.uk/articles/pay...
Read more in #TheDrMagazine 👇
thedoctor.bma.org.uk/articles/pay...
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Resident doctors across England are striking over pay and jobs today.
Here's why 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kghw...
Here's why 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kghw...
Resident doctors on the picket line tell us why they're striking
YouTube video by BMAtv
www.youtube.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Resident doctors across England are striking over pay and jobs today.
Here's why 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kghw...
Here's why 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kghw...
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NEW BLOG
🗣️‘Paying doctors what we are worth, is a key part of restoring our NHS to something we can all be proud of’
SRDC chair @chrissmith2211.bsky.social on the need to vote yes and vote early in the IA ballot for resident doctors in Scotland
Read ⬇️
bmascotland.home.blog/2025/11/14/s...
🗣️‘Paying doctors what we are worth, is a key part of restoring our NHS to something we can all be proud of’
SRDC chair @chrissmith2211.bsky.social on the need to vote yes and vote early in the IA ballot for resident doctors in Scotland
Read ⬇️
bmascotland.home.blog/2025/11/14/s...
Scottish resident doctor ballot opens: vote yes and vote early
Today is a significant moment for resident doctors in Scotland as our ballot for strike action opens. It is a time for us to show again that we are united, and prepared to act to protect the future…
bmascotland.home.blog
November 14, 2025 at 4:25 PM
NEW BLOG
🗣️‘Paying doctors what we are worth, is a key part of restoring our NHS to something we can all be proud of’
SRDC chair @chrissmith2211.bsky.social on the need to vote yes and vote early in the IA ballot for resident doctors in Scotland
Read ⬇️
bmascotland.home.blog/2025/11/14/s...
🗣️‘Paying doctors what we are worth, is a key part of restoring our NHS to something we can all be proud of’
SRDC chair @chrissmith2211.bsky.social on the need to vote yes and vote early in the IA ballot for resident doctors in Scotland
Read ⬇️
bmascotland.home.blog/2025/11/14/s...
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📣 Five days of strike action in England starts today.
These strikes could have been averted, if Wes Streeting had a credible pay and jobs offer for resident doctors in England to consider.
🪧 See you on the picket lines: www.bma.org.uk/rdpicketlines
These strikes could have been averted, if Wes Streeting had a credible pay and jobs offer for resident doctors in England to consider.
🪧 See you on the picket lines: www.bma.org.uk/rdpicketlines
November 14, 2025 at 10:45 AM
📣 Five days of strike action in England starts today.
These strikes could have been averted, if Wes Streeting had a credible pay and jobs offer for resident doctors in England to consider.
🪧 See you on the picket lines: www.bma.org.uk/rdpicketlines
These strikes could have been averted, if Wes Streeting had a credible pay and jobs offer for resident doctors in England to consider.
🪧 See you on the picket lines: www.bma.org.uk/rdpicketlines
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November 14, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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RESIDENT DOCTORS IN SCOTLAND: YOUR BALLOT FOR STRIKE ACTION IS OPEN.
You should be receiving your orange envelope with your ballot soon.
This is YOUR chance to have YOUR say, and hold the Scot Gov to the deal.
Please, vote early and vote yes.
You should be receiving your orange envelope with your ballot soon.
This is YOUR chance to have YOUR say, and hold the Scot Gov to the deal.
Please, vote early and vote yes.
November 14, 2025 at 11:23 AM
RESIDENT DOCTORS IN SCOTLAND: YOUR BALLOT FOR STRIKE ACTION IS OPEN.
You should be receiving your orange envelope with your ballot soon.
This is YOUR chance to have YOUR say, and hold the Scot Gov to the deal.
Please, vote early and vote yes.
You should be receiving your orange envelope with your ballot soon.
This is YOUR chance to have YOUR say, and hold the Scot Gov to the deal.
Please, vote early and vote yes.
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"We've really lost a huge amount of pay in medicine. The fact we are still a fifth less well off than we were in 2008 I think is a damning indictment of the way many governments have treated public sector workers"
BMA deputy chair @redrunswick.bsky.social
speaks to the BBC ahead of strike action 👇
BMA deputy chair @redrunswick.bsky.social
speaks to the BBC ahead of strike action 👇
November 12, 2025 at 11:19 AM
"We've really lost a huge amount of pay in medicine. The fact we are still a fifth less well off than we were in 2008 I think is a damning indictment of the way many governments have treated public sector workers"
BMA deputy chair @redrunswick.bsky.social
speaks to the BBC ahead of strike action 👇
BMA deputy chair @redrunswick.bsky.social
speaks to the BBC ahead of strike action 👇
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Long COVID has had debilitating effects on numerous health workers – many of whom remain unable to work.
The Government urgently needs to accept the Industrial Injuries Advisory Council’s recommendations as a crucial first step in recognising this.
Read more 👉 www.bma.org.uk/bma-media-ce...
The Government urgently needs to accept the Industrial Injuries Advisory Council’s recommendations as a crucial first step in recognising this.
Read more 👉 www.bma.org.uk/bma-media-ce...
November 12, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Long COVID has had debilitating effects on numerous health workers – many of whom remain unable to work.
The Government urgently needs to accept the Industrial Injuries Advisory Council’s recommendations as a crucial first step in recognising this.
Read more 👉 www.bma.org.uk/bma-media-ce...
The Government urgently needs to accept the Industrial Injuries Advisory Council’s recommendations as a crucial first step in recognising this.
Read more 👉 www.bma.org.uk/bma-media-ce...
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Health and care workers worked tirelessly throughout the COVID-19 pandemic to care for their patients, yet many were not adequately protected.
Together with the @rcn.org.uk we are calling on the UK Government to take a first step in recognising Long COVID as an occupational disease.
Together with the @rcn.org.uk we are calling on the UK Government to take a first step in recognising Long COVID as an occupational disease.
November 12, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Health and care workers worked tirelessly throughout the COVID-19 pandemic to care for their patients, yet many were not adequately protected.
Together with the @rcn.org.uk we are calling on the UK Government to take a first step in recognising Long COVID as an occupational disease.
Together with the @rcn.org.uk we are calling on the UK Government to take a first step in recognising Long COVID as an occupational disease.
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"As doctors, we at the BMA wish to ensure that, while resident doctors are taking lawful industrial action, patients remain safe"
Today, @tomdolphin.bsky.social and @redrunswick.bsky.social have written to NHS leaders to ensure the derogations system is used properly during strike action 👇
Today, @tomdolphin.bsky.social and @redrunswick.bsky.social have written to NHS leaders to ensure the derogations system is used properly during strike action 👇
November 12, 2025 at 3:22 PM
"As doctors, we at the BMA wish to ensure that, while resident doctors are taking lawful industrial action, patients remain safe"
Today, @tomdolphin.bsky.social and @redrunswick.bsky.social have written to NHS leaders to ensure the derogations system is used properly during strike action 👇
Today, @tomdolphin.bsky.social and @redrunswick.bsky.social have written to NHS leaders to ensure the derogations system is used properly during strike action 👇
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"If we want to fix the NHS for patients in the future, we need to ensure that doctors we have trained are able to get jobs, while at the same time we keep the ones we do have by valuing them properly." @bma.org.uk deputy chair @redrunswick.bsky.social speaks about resident doctor strike action.
November 11, 2025 at 8:40 AM
"If we want to fix the NHS for patients in the future, we need to ensure that doctors we have trained are able to get jobs, while at the same time we keep the ones we do have by valuing them properly." @bma.org.uk deputy chair @redrunswick.bsky.social speaks about resident doctor strike action.
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The Govt has suggested a pay uplift of just 2.5% for doctors next year, well below inflation.
With resident doctors striking next month over pay and jobs, it is “frankly indefensible that yet another Government is once again suggesting real-terms pay cut for doctors," says
@tomdolphin.bsky.social
With resident doctors striking next month over pay and jobs, it is “frankly indefensible that yet another Government is once again suggesting real-terms pay cut for doctors," says
@tomdolphin.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 10:30 AM
The Govt has suggested a pay uplift of just 2.5% for doctors next year, well below inflation.
With resident doctors striking next month over pay and jobs, it is “frankly indefensible that yet another Government is once again suggesting real-terms pay cut for doctors," says
@tomdolphin.bsky.social
With resident doctors striking next month over pay and jobs, it is “frankly indefensible that yet another Government is once again suggesting real-terms pay cut for doctors," says
@tomdolphin.bsky.social