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Emma Runswick

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  1. “So I'm just what have been inherent to the BMA for a long, long time. We've had reviews into sexism in our organisation. We've had what many members would call failures over the contract reform. And we needed to be a different kind of organisation. If we're going to make progress on pay, if we're going to win for members, then we needed to have a shift in strategy. And I and many others have been part of that shift to be tougher.”

    2024-02-16 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Emma Runswick One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “So on pay we weren't doing very well, but we were doing very well on a whole variety of other issues. We've had massive progress for, for example, less than full-time doctors and the treatment that they receive. We've had massive progress on all sorts of equality issues, for example. So we have been making lots of progress. The 2016 contract, much maligned and for good reason, did give us significant progress on safety issues. It reduced the maximum number of hours, for example, that we can work now down to 72. If you look at”

    2024-02-16 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Emma Runswick One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “Quite a lot of that I disagree with. Oh, God. I don't think that the BMA was necessarily weak. There were lots of things that we were doing really well before I was elected. And there were lots of individual reps who were doing incredible work on a whole variety of issues.”

    2024-02-16 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Emma Runswick One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “To be what? Yeah, I mean, I say red and hair and red in politics for a reason because we have learned our lessons from the rest of the labour movement that if you organise together, if you collaborate, if you do things that put your negotiating partners under pressure to shift their position, then you are more effective. could be anything. So at local level, we've had some success with just causing nuisance on issues such as making sure that you've got facilities for hot food. It does not take that long of using the C-suite facilities, kitchen facilities, before they give you kitchen facilities for other staff. All we've done there is caused a slight nuisance. At the other end of the spectrum, obviously, we've got nationwide strike action to shift the government's position on pay. And unions can act right between those different ends of the spectrum at every level.”

    2024-02-16 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Emma Runswick One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  5. “I think it's an old view and it has been a correct view in many, many years. It has been sufficient. We have been listened to as a profession, but no longer the case. And we can see the outcomes of that. The NHS is on its knees falling apart in places, inadequate care, and the kind of care that we don't want to be given to patients, hundreds of people die in a week, according to the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, because of delays to treatment. And then we also see it in wider society and in the treatment of doctors and medical students. Our pay has fallen, our conditions are worsening, we're losing thousands of our colleagues to abroad. So I think it's obvious that it's no longer enough to just say, well, I'm the doctor and I know best.”

    2024-02-16 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Emma Runswick One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  6. “Yeah, absolutely. I mean, the British Medical Association is a longstanding organisation. We've been a professional association since 1832 and a trade union since the 70s. And we've been very successful at a whole range of things. Very historically, the purpose of the BMA was to set up a General Medical Council to distinguish doctors from non-doctors qualified people, from non-qualified people, so that people could access good care and be assured of that. More recently, we've been proponents of many, many public health measures, but more recently, the professional standing has not been sufficient to shift the dial to make change. And we are also a trade union. We also need to learn to be a better trade union.”

    2024-02-16 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Emma Runswick One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  7. “Hm Interesting. I mean, I don't think that's necessarily true. Am I left wing? Definitely. Are there many of us? Yes, of course there are. Is it surprising that many of us who want to make the world a better place gravitate towards our trade union and professional association, the purpose of which is to enable us to improve our lives and the lives of our patients? I don't think that's surprising. So yeah, again, I'm not really bothered by these ideas if that's what the right-wing press are going to use to attack me. Welcome.”

    2024-02-16 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Emma Runswick One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  8. “In some ways it's a badge of pride because what they mean by militant is organized, consistent, it means that I am one of the many standing up for doctors and patients in this country against a government and an NHS situation which is very, very difficult. So it's not something that I might necessarily choose for myself, but I'm not offended by it in any way.”

    2024-02-16 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Emma Runswick One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source