patients wait on trolleys in A&E Exclusive The media regulator has ruled that Mail Online did not breach journalist code by publishing an article claiming that GPs have ‘fuelled’ a crisis in England’s…
DAUK Editorial Lead Dr Ellen Welch spells out a few harsh truths about the damaging and entirely misleading anachronism of the so-called 'part-time GP' in the Metro News. If MPs…
DAUK's GP Team were among the signatories to a letter published in The Observer this weekend, opposing the view that general practice's problems could be overcome by hiring younger doctors.…
Lizzie Toberty, a 35-year-old GP in north east England who is a member of the grassroots campaign group Doctors’ Association UK, believes in the principle of partner-led practices rooted in…
Dr Rinesh Parmar, The Doctors’ Association UK Chair tells The Independent that the latest A&E wait times figures came as a “direct result of years of underfunding” citing poor morale and spiralling workloads as contributing to a staffing crisis in emergency medicine.
Eleven million patients have endured waits of more than three weeks to see a GP since Boris Johnson pledged to eradicate such delays, The Sunday Times has revealed. Dr Yaso Browne DAUK GP lead: “No GP wants to feel like they go in to work to firefight and deal with more patient contacts than is safe to do so but this is reality for many.”
The DAUK have written to Steven Brine, a junior health minister, who at a House of Commons Library Debate on GP retention and recruitment said there is “little wonder” that…
