'Ministers appear to have been sitting on their hands and not learning the lessons from the first wave. You tend to have more patients that are not intubated and ventilated…
A computer system crash left hundreds of doctors unable to submit applications for ST3 training posts last night.Junior doctor leaders were today pressing for an extension to the deadline following…
The Conservatives have promised an extra 50m GP appointments a year and an extra 6,000 GPs by 2024/25 - just over a year after dropping the timescale for a failed pledge to recruit an extra 5,000 GPs. Read our response in The Sunday Times.
The NHS is in a state of crisis. Whilst much attention has focussed on Brexit, doctors have watched on with increasing concern as the NHS, Britain’s greatest treasure, has been sidelined. It is unacceptable that it has taken a general election to put the NHS back on the agenda. Our manifesto prioritises the NHS, the patients it serves and its dedicated workforce.
The Doctors’ Association UK would first and foremost like to thank the British Medical Association and the negotiating team for their hard work this year.
However, DAUK notes with concern the outcome the BMA’s referendum of its junior members on the revised 2016 terms & conditions of employment for junior doctors in England.
Jeremy Hunt last week told the Sunday Times that he was best placed to negotiate a Brexit deal as he "out-negotiated what is widely thought to be the toughest union…
Yesterday Dr Samantha Batt-Rawden, our Chair gave her thoughts on Brexit in an interview with ITV news alongside Dr Chaand Nagpaul, Chair BMA Council.
Sammy spoke about the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine’s (FICM) report Critical Capacity, which outlined that staffing of intensive care units in the UK is a national problem.
