As The Times reveal travellers are waiting two weeks for testing, Dr Rinesh Parmar DAUK Chair makes the case for frontline NHS staff to receive COVID-19 testing to allow them to return to the frontline.
As the government announces their Coronavirus Action Plan senior medical leaders, including Dr Rinesh Parmar Chair of DAUK, continue to express doubt.
As the government suggests retired doctors could be enlisted to help treat Coronavirus Dr Jenny Vaughan DAUK’s Law and Policy Lead questions these plans. Speaking to GP Online DAUK raise concerns about how retired doctors would be more vulnerable to COVID-19, and how the NHS pensions tax which forced many to retire is still not fixed.
Eight out of the 1,618 respondents said they believed the health service was ready to deal with an outbreak when asked by The Doctors' Association UK (DAUK), despite the prime minister's insistence that the NHS will cope if it is hit by a surge in the number of people falling ill.
Our survey also shows that a large majority of doctors fear the NHS is ill-prepared to deal with a major outbreak. More than 99 per cent of 1618 medics questioned by the Doctors’ Association UK did not agree that the service is well prepared to cope if it is hit by an epidemic.
Our survey of over 1600 doctors revealed that just 8 think the NHS is well prepared for Coronovirus. Frontline doctors have detailed their concerns including critical care capacity and lack of basic provisions. Read more in The Guardian here.
