Following our correspondence with the Health and Social Care Committee (HSC) DAUK has now been invited to submit written evidence to the Parliamentary inquiry into gross negligence manslaughter. This briefing will accompany the BMA’s briefing which will be going to the Health and Social Committee tomorrow afternoon.
We are proud to announce that Dr Jenny Vaughan and Dr Robert Hirst have joined the executive committee, as Law and Policy Lead, and Secretary respectively. Read more about Jenny and Rob.
After months of pressure on the Health Select Committee, from DAUK, David Nicholl, Alan Woodall GP Survival and others, a Parliamentary inquiry has now been announced.
Despite the request coming from the grassroots, disappointingly no doctors or organisations representing doctors have been invited to give evidence. However, the Health Select Committee will be hearing from Charlie Massey.
A profile of DAUK and our newest committee member in the RCGP magazine, GP Front line: “a fledging but already high-profile political lobbying group, The Doctors’ Association, providing the virtual organisation with a GP voice on issues such as Brexit, and the recent Bawa-Garba case. “
“We’re an Independent, non-profit, non-partisan political lobbying group for doctors” . Adrian explains, “it was apparent that there was a desire for doctors to become more involved in political campaigning.
Coverage in Pulse: A doctor-led lobbying group has urged the health secretary to review the GMC’s ability to appeal its own fitness-to-practice tribunal. In a letter to Matt Hancock, The Doctor’s Association UK said the GMC’s right to appeal the MPTS has led to ‘significant unwelcome and unintended consequences’.
In GP Online: A letter co-ordinated by DAUK campaigners have urged the health secretary to stop GMC appeals against medical tribunal decisions immediately, warning the NHS faces further 'breakdown' if the regulator continues to use this power.
The Doctors’ Association UK (DAUK) - working alongside their affiliates in a number of other doctor-led advocacy and lobbying groups, including the British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin, Doctors…
