Following allegations from staff that West Suffolk started a finger-printing ‘witch hunt’ to identify an anonymous whistleblower, Dr Rinesh Parmar DAUK Chair talks to The Guardian after fresh concerns are raised.
The government has ordered an urgent inquiry into the local hospital of the Health Secretary after DAUK revealed its unprecedented ‘witch-hunt’ for a whistleblower in The Guardian.
Dr Yaso Browne DAUK’s GP Lead is interviewed for GP Online as it is announced private company Babylon has signed a 10 year deal with NHS trust that runs 10 GP practices.
Patients have had to sleep overnight in the Emergency Department of one the NHS’s biggest hospitals because it is overwhelmed by the number of people needing care. In recent weeks DAUK has highlighted how hospitals are struggling to cope this winter including at The Royal Cornwall hospital.
As it emerges that hospitals have been encouraging clinicians to consider early discharge despite the acknowledged risk of harm to patients, DAUK’s GP Lead Dr Yaso Browne talks to Pulse about the impact on primary care.
DAUK speaks to BBC News after doctors approached the association alleging that West Suffolk hospital had demanded finger-prints and samples of handwriting to identify an anonymous whistleblower.
In December The Doctors’ Association UK was able to bring to light the extraordinary and unprecedented action taken by West Suffolk to identify a whistleblower in what has been described as a ‘witch-hunt’.
