Organisations led by doctors and nurses are helping professionals amplify their voices and campaign for change Campaigning for change: Kaveri Jalundhwala, Pushpo Hossain, Rosie Shire - photo from FT full article…
Doctors have warned that plans to pool medical records on to a database and share them with third parties could erode the relationship between them and patients. The warning came…
Support our crowdfund here Plans for the largest seizure of GP data in NHS history are unlawful and the government faces an urgent legal challenge unless the scheme is stopped…
NHS buckling at the knees while government quango refuses access to vital international doctors The Doctors’ Association UK (DAUK) are supporting overseas doctors from COVID-19 red list countries who are…
DAUK has joined a coalition of other leading healthcare organisations in urging the government to deliver on its 2018 commitment to strip the GMC of its power to appeal decisions made by the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS).
DAUK's Dr Samantha Batt-Rawden speaks to the Guardian about the current sentiment of NHS workers following the pandemic. "Staff morale will probably never recover fully. But there is a small window of opportunity now that, if lost, will never be regained. If we don’t start caring about our staff now, there will be no one left to care for our patients."
"None of this is normal in the NHS. At our trust, we have three times the level of ICU patients that we had at the same time last year. We have converted several floors of our hospital to intensive care. We have redeployed multiple members of staff consultants…people from all specialties have been redeployed in the roles that they don't normally fulfil"
