DAUK welcomes the publication of the Joint Committee on Draft Health Service Safety Investigations Bill (HSSIB) report and are pleased that the report agrees with our written submission that the provision for the HSSIB to accredit NHS trusts to do their own ‘safe space’ investigations is an enormous conflict of interest.
DAUK Chair Dr Samantha Batt-Rawden, who sat in court during the Dr Hadiza Bawa-Garba appeal tells GPonline: ‘Particularly concerning to all of us has been the GMC’s line of argument. To an observer, it seems the crux of their argument is that system failures were not relevant in Hadiza’s case, and should not have been taken into account by the MPTS when determining her level of culpability and her sanction.’
Learn Not Blame is DAUK’s exciting new campaign, which will be launched over the coming months. We aim to empower individual doctors to be part of a transformational change process working towards a revolution in the culture of the NHS. The campaign has been born out of a growing awareness amongst clinicians of how a toxic mix of defensiveness and concern for reputation management above all else can lead to blame-seeking culture. This is bad for doctors and worse still for patient safety.
Today The Doctors’ Association UK has written to Dame Clare Marx to express our concern regarding the make up of the working group for the GMC review into gross negligence…
As the first stage of the DAUK's new campaign, Learn Not Blame, DAUK has responded to a rapid policy review into the use of gross negligence manslaughter in England and…
The Doctors’ Association have launched their new campaign: Learn, Not Blame. In the wake of the case of Dr Hadiza Bawa-Garba the DAUK feel the medical profession has a unique…
