Sir, More reorganisation will not solve the crisis with NHS waiting lists or prevent chronic disease, inevitably worsening care as resources are diverted to plan the shuffle (“GPs nationalised in…
GP leaders have reacted strongly to the health and social care secretary's comments - warning they are ‘increasingly concerned’ over the government’s agenda in referring to general practice as part…
GPs have come forward to tell DAUK that they have been barred from speaking up about their concerns regarding PPE, locally, on social media or in the press. Read our article in GP Online here.
Dr Yaso Browne DAUK’s GP Lead is interviewed for GP Online as it is announced private company Babylon has signed a 10 year deal with NHS trust that runs 10 GP practices.
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 letter, sent by the Doctors’ Association UK (DAUK) and signed by over 2,000 doctors - including 654 GPs and 312 GP trainees - highlights the devastating impact that 'years of underfunding' have had on the NHS.
Doctors are ‘working themselves into the ground’ to keep services afloat, it adds, warning that the haemorrhaging of frontline staff cannot continue.
