BMA in Your Area South East Coast

In your area: South East Coast

Supporting you locally

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Welcome to BMA south east coast Member relations directorate

The BMA has many regional structures, representatives and staff who are here to help and represent you. This pamphlet is aimed at both those considering getting involved at a local level and those with issues Member Specialist that they would like to raise. We hope that it will help employment member to demystify our structures and to clearly signpost relations relations you to your local representatives.

Local BMA staff from the member relations directorate are here to assist you. Local member Member employment relations staff engagement (Senior/ Employment Advisors) will generally deal relations with individual queries and employment issues, Local member engagement relations staff (Regional Co-ordinators and Industrial Relations Officers/ Managers) deal with collective issues and support LNCs and Specialist member relations deal with pensions queries and provide the employer Southern BMA has a new Twitter account, so you advisory service. have more ways to stay in touch. Please visit our new Twitter page and follow us for updates on happenings BMA structures work together in the region and we across the region and information on local events. have tried to explain more about each over the next few pages. @SouthernBMA 4 British Medical Association In your area: South East Coast

The diagram below is a simplified version of our current structures. Reporting structures may vary. Individual members can get directly involved in any of these local structures (green and blue boxes).

For individual employment issues please contact us on: 0300 123 1233 (Telephone lines are open between 8am and 8pm Monday to Friday and 9am to 5pm Saturday, excluding bank holidays. Webchat is open 8am to 8pm Monday to Friday and 9am to 5pm Saturday, excluding UK bank holidays.) www.bma.org.uk/contact-bma

BMA local and regional structures (England)

UK council

Represenative body Nattional BoP (ARM) committees and Regional council conferences (Eg SASC, JDC,CC,GPC)

Regional BoP BMA Divisions committees (Eg RSASC, RJDC, RCC)

LNC forum LNCs LMCs In your area: South East Coast 5

Your regional council

BMA regional councils operate in England. Regional councils are open to all BMA members and provide a forum for discussing matters of regional interest and issues affecting the profession across all branches of practice. There are ten regional councils in England:

–– East Midlands – South Central Yorkshire Dr Christine Clayton, –– Eastern – South East Coast BMA South East Coast –– London – South West regional council Chair –– North East – West Midlands –– North Western – Yorkshire and Humber

The South East Coast Regional Council provides a focus for BMA activity at a regional level, delivering BMA policy and providing a communication link between the region and the BMA UK council. The SECRC brings together all BMA members across Kent, Surrey and Sussex to discuss issues affecting the London profession. You can raise issues with the SECRC via email: [email protected] South East Coast

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Representing you at a local level

Doctors and Committees meet regularly to consider issues affecting Representatives of all local LNCs meet at the regional medical the medical profession and patient healthcare in the LNC Forum to discuss all local issues and to share students are south east coast area and are supported by BMA staff best practice. also represented from the members’ relations directorate. through branch LMCs represent GPs and practice teams in their of practice Every BMA member in the south east coast region negotiations with decision makers and stakeholders committees, belongs to one of 11 local divisions, which represent from health and local government to get the best divisions, and members in all disciplines geographically. Each active services for patients. our network of division has a secretary, a chair and other executive LNCs and LMCs committee members. BMA divisions submit policy LMCs contribute to the wider activities of the BMA in ‘motions’ to the ARM (annual representative meeting) the region but are not BMA committees, rather they which, if passed, become national BMA policy. are independent statutory bodies. Members of the LMC are elected by local GPs. We have also established a network of LNCs (local negotiating committees) in trusts throughout the region. These committees ensure that the voice of the medical profession is heard by management in the workplace. Your representatives make sure that the interests of doctors are protected in negotiations on terms and conditions of service through these LNCs. In your area: South East Coast 7

Representing branches of practice

Working across Regional consultants committees Regional junior doctor committees the South These are the representative bodies for all These committees are the voice of junior doctors Eastern region, consultants in SEC area. Two RCC members are elected living and working in the South East Coast area there are branch to the UK consultants committee and provide an – they represent members locally and send of practice important link between the national body and the representatives to the main junior doctors committee. committees BMA locally. that feed in South Thames Regional Junior Doctors Committee local members’ The RCCs also provide a source of expert advice Chair: Dr Yanushi Wijeyeratne comments and regionally for directors of public health, the views to the deaneries, regional advisory committees on clinical national branch excellence awards, ‘Trusts, STPs/ ICSs and local You can contact all regional committees/ of practice authorities. representatives care of the BMA south committees. east centre: Southern Regional Consultants Committee T 020 8655 8839 Chair: Dr Sarah Jones E [email protected]

Regional SAS committees South West London and St George’s Lewisham and St George’s NHS Trust Greenwich NHS FT University Guys and St These are the representative bodies for all SAS Hospitals NHS Thomas’ NHS King’s Foundation Trust College Trust Hospital NHS FT Oxleas NHS FT Medway NHS doctors in the South East Coast area. Regional SASC Kingston Dartford & Trust Hospital Gravesham NHS FT NHS Trust Kent and Medway Partnership NHS Trust members are elected to the UK SAS committee and South London and Maudsley NHS FT Maidstone and Tunbridge Croydon Health Wells NHS FT provide an important link between the national body Services NHS Epsom and St Helier University Trust Hospitals NHS Trust and the BMA locally. Ashford and St Peters NHS East Kent Hospitals Trust University NHS FT Royal Surrey Frimley Health NHS Trust NHS Foundation Trust Surrey & Borders Sussex Partnership Southern Regional SAS Committee Surrey and Sussex Partnership NHS Trust Healthcare NHS Trust NHS Trust Co-Chairs: Dr Adrian Simoes and Dr Umesh Rastogi Brighton & East Sussex Western Sussex Queen Victoria Sussex University Healthcare Hospitals NHS Trust Hospitals NHS Hospitals NHS NHS Trust Trust Trust 8 British Medical Association In your area: South East Coast

Divisions

All BMA members are allocated to a local division. South East Coast Divisions Divisions provide an opportunity for members to –– Aldershot, Farnham & Frimley discuss issues that impact on all branches of practice –– Brighton & Hove and to debate local matters with other members in –– Dartford, Gravesham & Medway the area. –– Eastern Kent: –– East Sussex If you are actively involved with your division, don’t –– Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells miss out on the D circulars, which contain important –– Mid Downs (including Kingston & Esher) information about upcoming events such as the –– East Surrey ARM (Annual Representative Meeting). You can –– Guildford also download our support guide on our website for –– West Sussex honorary secretaries describing what divisions can do. –– Woking & Chertsey

For more information please contact: Nikki Heron E [email protected] T 0113 261 8325

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LMCs (local medical committees)

Local medical committees (LMCs) are independent, LMC contacts self-financing bodies statutorily recognised by successive NHS Acts as the sole professional Kent LMC organisation representing GPs and their practices. 8 Roebuck Business Park, They represent the interests of all NHS GPs; Ashford Road, Harrietsham, pastorally supporting and advising individual Kent ME17 1AB GPs and representing GPs and their practices as T 01622 851197 providers within their local Clinical Commissioning F 01622 851198 Group. They interact and work with, and through, E [email protected] the General Practitioners Committee. They are not www.kentlmc.org.uk regional BMA offices. Surrey and Sussex LMC There are two LMC conferences per year. One The White House, 18 Church Road, is a UK conference and the other is an England Leatherhead, Surrey KT22 8BB LMC conference. T 01372 389270 F 01372 389271 Locally, LMCs hold various social and educational E [email protected] events throughout the year. www.sslmcs.co.uk 10 British Medical Association In your area: South East Coast

LNCs (local negotiating committees)

LNCs (local negotiating committees) are made up of elected Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust – local representatives who negotiate – and have the authority Dr San Sunkaraneni to make collective agreements – with local management on Surrey & Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust – behalf of medical and dental staff of all grades. Dr Gareth O’Leary

LNC committee chairs: Kent Sussex Kent & Medway Partnership NHS Trust – Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust Dr Adam Kasparek East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust – Dr Rebecca Gray Dartford & Gravesham NHS Foundation Trust – Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust – Dr Selwyn D’Costa Dr Sean McHale Kent Community Healthcare NHS Trust – Sussex Partnership NHS Trust – Dr Sabine Munzinger Dr Mun-Yee Tung Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust – East Kent Hospitals NHS University Foundation Trust – Dr Hisham Daghestani Dr Ritoo Kapoor Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust – Maidstone & Tunbridge Wells NHS Foundation Trust – Dr Kenneth Sneddon Dr George Graham Medway NHS Foundation Trust – Dr Shaumik Adhya Surrey Surrey & Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust – Dr Ajay Pankhania For more information please contact: Ashford & St Peters Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust – South East & Eastern Centre Dr Jillian Pritchard E [email protected] Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust – T 020 8655 8839 Dr Bernard Nawarski Epsom & St Helier NHS Foundation Trust – Dr Dwynwen Roberts In your area: South East Coast 11

Offices and facilities in your area

Our regional centre is located in East Croydon, from BMA headquarters where we represent over 20,000 members. BMA House Tavistock Square Hugh Townsend London WC1H 9JP Regional Co-ordinator – South east coast T 020 7387 4499 T 020 8655 8804 M 07768 577 948 Members are welcome to use the members’ lounge, E [email protected] library and a range of facilities at BMA House. For more information call 020 7387 4499. Hugh Townsend Regional centre office location Southern centre Video conference facilities 6th floor You can join most of our meetings by Skype. A link will be Knollys House provided for each meeting on the agenda. 17 Addiscombe Road Croydon CR0 6SR T 020 8655 8839 More information If you have any questions, or would like more Centre coordinator information about being a BMA representative, get Lorraine Smith in touch with Hugh Townsend on 020 8655 8804 / T 020 8655 8839 [email protected] E [email protected] 12 British Medical Association In your area: South East Coast

Industrial relations support

We employ a team of experienced and specialist –– Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust staff to support members in all branches of practice. –– Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Industrial Relations Officers (IROs) support LNCs, provide advice on terms and conditions of service and James Steen (Regional Co-ordinator and Industrial take up collective issues on our members’ behalf with Relations Officer) employers. T 02086558870 E [email protected] We also undertake detailed negotiations and consultations with government and NHS employers, –– Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust making sure that the voice of the medical profession is heard, and that doctors’ views are effectively communicated at every level. For individual employment issues please contact us on: 0300 123 1233 (8.30am – 6pm, Mon – Fri) These are the Industrial Relations Officers (IROs) for the Or Book a call (Mon – Fri, 8am – 9pm, Sat 9am – South Eastern region, with the employers they cover: 5pm) Email [email protected] Webchat Talk to an adviser (8am – 9pm Mon – Fri, 9am – 5pm Cathy Taylor Sat, excluding UK bank holidays) T 0117 945 3109 www.bma.org.uk/contact-bma E [email protected]

–– Ashford & St Peters NHS Trust –– Brighton & Sussex NHS Trust –– Queen Victoria NHS Trust –– Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust –– Surrey & Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust In your area: South East Coast 13

Hugh Townsend Ruth Baird T 020 8655 8804 T 020 8655 8803 E [email protected] E [email protected]

–– East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust –– East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust –– Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership NHS –– Epsom St Helier University Hospital NHS Trust Trust –– Maidstone & Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust –– Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust –– Surrey & Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust –– Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Muchie Shamuyarira T 020 8655 8842 E [email protected]

–– Medway NHS Foundation Trust –– Dartford and Gravesham NHS Foundation Trust –– Medway Community Healthcare NHS Trust British Medical Association BMA House, Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9JP bma.org.uk

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