It’s been a worrying week for the NHS with numbers of hospitalised Covid patients at an all time high. Yesterday, an Essex trust called in the army after declaring a major incident,…
One way to make workplaces safer is to provide secure channels for reporting wrongdoing. In the UK, organisations including the whistleblowing charity Protect, WhistleblowersUK, and the Doctors’ Association UK are campaigning for change. Reform is also the goal of a private members’ bill sponsored by the MP Philippa Whitford and of a House of Lords’ bill sponsored by Baroness Kramer.
Dolin Bhagawati writes for The Independent about the government’s need for duty of candour in regards to lack of PPE.
Following an article published last week suggesting that doctors need communication skills lesson due to evidence of a loss empathy during training DAUK was asked to respond.
DAUK Co-Founder Dr Samantha Batt-Rawden who has authored a number of research papers on empathy decline in doctors and medical students wrote this letter to the Editor, published today in The Sunday Times:
Last year The Doctors’ Association UK Co-Founder Dr Samantha Batt-Rawden raised concerns regarding an article published in the American Journal of Emergency Medicine comparing first-pass intubation success of female and male physicians.
In a collaboration with doctors internationally Sammy co-authored a letter to the editor which was published in AJEM this month.
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.
Dr Rinesh Parmar responds to claims the NHS is being held to ransom by locums in a letter published by The Telegraph. Citing the NHS pension tax crisis he said there has been ample time to remedy the situation and address the concerns of NHS staff and patients. He further added the Government must now pay more than lip service to the pensions crisis, and work constructively towards retaining its highly trained and dedicated NHS workforce. Read the full letter here.
