A total of 791 final year medical students were placed on the reserve list for the UK Foundation Programme (UKFPO) last week, after not being allocated a placement for FY1.1 This…
The recent case of Toombes vs Mitchell made legal history and the medical profession have been considering the potential implications ever since. read the piece by DAUK, The On-Call Room,…
NHS staff who work directly with patients should have routine access to face masks that offer high protection because covid-19 infections threaten to overwhelm services, doctors’ leaders have said. Three…
GPs have called on the government to update the official list of covid-19 symptoms after seeing patients shun tests to check their infection status because they don’t believe they have…
The volume of patients, the complexity of illnesses, and the unrelenting nature of the covid pandemic are having a huge impact on morale among our junior doctors, many of whom…
Samantha Batt-Rawden, president of the grassroots campaigning organisation the Doctors’ Association UK (DAUK), told The BMJ that doctors continued to receive abuse despite “risking their lives since March 2020.” In…
DAUK's Dr Ellen Welch and Dr Katie Sanderson write in the BMJ. For months now, it has been the norm in primary care to speak with patients calling to discuss…
