The Doctors’ Association UK launches its #protectthefrontline campaign on PPE by co-ordinating a letter to Mr Boris Johnson, now signed by over 8000 UK doctors, asking for his intervention to ensure frontline NHS staff have access to appropriate PPE. Read the coverage in The Sunday Times.
We have been working with the the GMC on supporting doctors to return to practice. Read this update with Medscape with Dr Rinesh Parmar, DAUK Chair.
Julia Simons our Medical student representative speaks to The Guardian about her worries.
Dr Rinesh Parmar spoke to Piers Morgan and Ranvir Singh on Good Morning Britain about the issues that frontline doctors are having with the lack of Personal Protective Equipment and the importance of priority testing of NHS Staff.
Dr Jenny Vaughan, Law and Policy Officer at the Doctors‘ Association UK, speaks to the New York Times about COVID-19 preparations in the NHS. “If you look at the numbers, there are going to be some very difficult decisions.”
Dr Samantha Batt-Rawden DAUK Co-Founder speaks out on behalf of lack PPE,
Doctors having been telling us for weeks that they don’t have adequate access to PPE. Your views from the frontline were collated for The Daily Mirror.