Dr Matthew Kneale, a committee member of the Doctors' Association UK, wrote to the Huffington Post explaining the challenges faced by NHS workers in the second wave of Covid-19
Following months of lobbying by DAUK Government ministers have asked medical examiners in England and Wales to review all deaths of frontline health and social care staff from COVID-19.
Boris Johnson has agreed to exempt health and care workers from the NHS surcharge. The climbdown came after Tory backbenchers said they would support Labour’s effort to force the government’s hand. The row broke out on Monday when the Doctor’s Association UK wrote to Priti Patel, the home secretary, urging the government to abandon the surcharge, which it described as “an insult to all who are serving this country at its time of greatest need”.
Over 100,000 people have now signed our letter to Boris Johnson demanding a full public inquiry into healthcare worker deaths and PPE, in addition to Coroner’s inquests into each death.
The Telegraph celebrates 100 years of inspirational frontline female medics and interviews Dr Samantha Batt-Rawden DAUK President and intensive care doctor.
Dr Rinesh Parmar tells the Mirror that Matt Hancock delivered a "political soundbite" in place of a meaningful policy that would safeguard the rights of dependents of deceased healthcare workers.
Dr Samantha Batt-Rawden DAUK President says “you wouldn’t send a soldier into war without helmet, why are you sending doctors and nurses onto the frontline with a flimsy plastic apron”
