MPTS Determination for Dr Hadiza Bawa-Garba
The Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service has restored Dr Hadiza Bawa-Garba to the medical register, read the full determination here.
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April 14, 2019
PRESS RELEASE: Dr Hadiza Bawa-Garba restored to the medical register and able to return to practice
Today, there is widespread relief amongst the medical profession. However, the verdict is no cause for celebration. At the heart of this case is a child, Jack Adcock, who tragically lost his life to sepsis. Our hearts go out to the Adcock family as they continue to grief for Jack. When a child dies it is our duty as doctors to do all we can to prevent the same tragedy from occurring again. We strongly feel that scapegoating an individual doctor or clinician for human errors made whilst whilst working under enormous pressure, does not serve this purpose. Instead, the criminalisation of medical error creates a culture of fear and blame, where clinicians feel afraid to speak up, afraid to reflect, and afraid to learn when things go wrong. Therefore we welcome the verdict of the Medical Tribunal Practitioners Service today, who, after considering all the system failures and the context in which Dr Bawa-Garba made errors, has found her safe to return to medical practice.
April 9, 2019
DAUK joins anti-bullying alliance to eradicate bullying and undermining in the NHS
The Doctors’ Association UK is proud to stand alongside the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and 23 other organisations in an alliance to eradicate workplace bullying.
April 4, 2019
DAUK in The Guardian: Dossier reveals ‘petty tortures’ of NHS trainee doctors denied leave
This week we got in touch with DAUK member Dr Joanna Poole, an anaesthetic registrar whose post about wanting to quit medicine went viral on Twitter. DAUK were able to support Joanna and were able to help see this piece published in The Guardian on Joanna’s behalf. Now, Joanna is joining forces with DAUK to encourage doctors to speak out as part of DAUK’s #NHSMeToo campaign. Yesterday, we published a thread of such stories which has been widely shared, and has even been commented on and retweeted by the Health Secretary. Read The Guardian article here.
March 29, 2019
Overturning Injustice: BMJ feature on our Law and Policy Officer Dr Jenny Vaughan
We are proud to announce that the BMJ has published a feature on Dr Jenny Vaughan. The piece includes a profile on Jenny as well as question and answer interview.
March 27, 2019
DAUK Chair Dr Samantha Batt-Rawden interviewed on ITV news about the potential impact of Brexit on our NHS
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.
March 27, 2019
Dr Jenny Vaughan for BMJ-the criminalisation of unintentional error
We are grateful to BMJ for publishing this paper, written by our Law and Policy Officer Dr Jenny Vaughan in conjunction with Dr Ameratunga, Dr Klonin Dr Merry and Dr Cusack, and giving it front page profile. We hope it will be a game-changer for the UK and that no other clinicians, be they doctors, nurses or optometrists will find themselves in front of a criminal court unless they have recklessly and wilfully caused death.
March 9, 2019
