Wales SAS committee

The Wales SAS committee represents specialist, associate specialist and specialty doctors working in the NHS in Wales, and includes representatives from each health board. Find out about our priorities, voting members, and how to get in touch.
Location: Wales
Audience: SAS doctors
Updated: Tuesday 14 November 2023
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Our priorities

  • Restoring pay for SAS doctors in Wales.
  • Work with Welsh Government and NHS Employers Wales to ensure appropriate implementation of the new contract packages for SAS doctors following the recent referendum.
  • Continue to ensure further implementation of the SAS Charter in Wales.
  • Ensure there is greater transparency of recording SAS doctors' work.
  • Ensure management roles in health boards are offered to all.
  • Ensure SAS terms and conditions of service are up to date.
  • Promote quality job planning.
  • Encourage SAS doctors to be trained as appraisers.
WSASC guide PDF/197KB

SAS charter promotion

The committee has created a poster to promote the SAS charter for Wales for members to share via any channels, such as hospitals, libraries and postgrad centres.

Download the poster PDF/3MB

Our people

Chair: TBC

Deputy chair: TBC

Members

Voting members for 2025-2028:

Cwm Taf Morgannwg

Ali Nazir
Andrew Hallett
Vishalkumar Shantilal Parmar
Dale Cartwright
Ravi Shankar Punukollu
Edith Sucharita Jiwanmall

Betsi Cadwaladr

Julie Jones 
Vishwanath Puranik
Tarek Elmargarbi
Sameer Agarwal
Rajesh Utterkar
Shivani Deshwal

Hywel Dda

Vacant

Swansea Bay

Vacant

Cardiff and Vale

Annette Preest

Aneurin Bevan

Kavan Arora
Florin Capatana
Antonino Curatola

Powys

Julia Bignall

Velindre

Vacant

Public health

Vacant

Welsh council member

Kodali Prasad 

 

Our meetings

We meet four times a year to discuss the latest issues affecting SAS doctors in Wales. These meetings are open to committee members only.

Meeting dates for 2025/26

  • Thursday 18 September 2025 (Hybrid)
  • Tuesday 18 November 2025 (Virtual)
  • Tuesday 17 March 2026 (Hybrid)
  • Tuesday 16 June 2026 (Virtual)

 

How to join

There are many advantages to becoming involved in our committees. You can actively influence BMA policy-making and negotiations, represent your colleagues' voices and develop your leadership skills. 

Each committee has a few routes to becoming an elected member. In the case of Wales SASC, this is: 

Health boards elections
  • Seats/term – every three years, health boards and Trusts in Wales elect 28 representatives for a three-session term. Seats are distributed evenly between boards based on the number of SAS doctors employed in the board area.
  • Timeline - elections are usually held in July or August.
  • Eligibility - all SAS doctors who are BMA members, and working in a Welsh health and social care trust are eligible to stand and vote in this election.

The election section below is kept up to date with details about any running elections, so make sure you keep checking it throughout the year.  

 

Elections

Direct elections WSASC 2025-28

Formal elections have now closed but there are still some vacancies on the committee, particularly for Hywel Dda UHB and Swansea Bay. For more information on the vacancies, please email Danielle Maidment at: dmaidment@bma.org.uk

To stand or vote in WSASC elections, you must:

  • be a BMA SAS doctor 
  • be working in one of the health boards and trusts above
  • have a BMA online account

 

Get in touch

If you want to find out more about the work of the WSASC, email us or call 029 2047 4696.

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