Annual General Meeting of the BSCA 30^th June in Manchester

Notice is given of the Annual General Meeting of the BSCA on the morning of Tuesday 30^th June at Manchester Central

 Agenda

-President’s update

-Officer’s updates

-Committee change

The officers and members of the Committee will be re-elected at the Annual General Meeting

Proposals for alteration of the Constitution at the BSCA AGM June 2026

Alterations of the constitution can only occur at an Annual General Meeting. Notice of the proposals below by Dr Catherine Holden and duly seconded by Dr Philippa Cousen are now being circulated with notice two months before the meeting. For adoption, a two-thirds majority of those voting will be necessary.

We propose a new membership category of ‘associate’ membership’ to align with the BAD.

Current category:

8.Membership will be available to anyone interested in Contact Dermatitis upon application to and approved by, the Committee.

Is changed to:

8.Membership will be available to anyone interested in Contact Dermatitis upon application to and approved by the Committee:

• Ordinary membership with voting rights will be available to practising dermatologists, (including research) in UK and Ireland on the Specialist register for Dermatology of the GMC or the Irish Medical Council, UK and Ireland dermatology trainees on training schemes (with NTN) and SAS dermatology doctors fully committed to secondary care dermatology for 4 years (or more).
• Associate membership without voting rights will be available to doctors on the GMC or the Irish Medical Council, overseas consultant or trainee dermatologists in practice outside the United Kingdom and Ireland, nurses who are members of the British Dermatological Nursing Group (BDNG) or Irish Dermatology Nurses Association (IDNA), and scientists and relevant other non-medics who have a significant practice involving dermatological patients or cutaneous allergy.

Current Committee:

President: Natalie Stone
Secretary: Philippa Cousen
Meetings Secretary: Donna Thompson
Membership Secretary: Catherine Holden
Treasurer: Sarah Wakelin

Regional representation:

London and South East: David Orton, Sarah Wakelin

East Midlands and East: Graham Johnston

North East, Yorkshire and Humber: Philippa Cousen, Mark Wilkinson

North West: Jason Williams

West Midlands: Cat Wootton, Donna Thompson

South West and South Central: Aparna Sinha, Deirdre Buckley

Wales: Natalie Stone, Mabs Chowdhury

Ireland: Johnny Bourke

Scotland: Chandra Bertram, Sharizan Abdul Ghaffar

UK representative on the European Society of Contact Dermatitis (ESCD) committee: Deirdre Buckley

New Consultant Representative: Siobhan MacCarthy

Specialty and Associate Specialist Representative: Catherine Holden

Research and Audit Representative: Livia Soriano

Digital Representative: Ying Teo

Trainee Representatives: Kate Dear, Lydia Scrivens, Yasmine Khan