Mental health care and general practice are in deeper crisis than ever before. We need a political solution. Amid claims that GPs are “hiding” from patients behind telephone triage and…
Nothing happens quickly within the NHS, but it seemed last week that the longest of the health service’s many queues was of patients lining up to complain about their GPs.…
My first thought when I saw pictures of the Prime Minister strolling maskless through a hospital yesterday? ‘There’s a man who thinks rules don’t apply to him’. For Boris Johnson…
My day today started at 6am, faced with a roster of e-consults, alongside breastfeeding breaks and nappy changes, occasionally interrupted by a vocal toddler running in when he tires of…
The frenzied news that a new ‘worst ever’ strain of Covid has been found should come as no surprise to anyone. Public Health England (PHE) and health authorities around the world are…
Around 1,600 GPs and hundreds of other signatories have backed a complaint to the press standards watchdog by the Doctors Association UK (DAUK) over Telegraph articles on access to general…
A Doctors’ Association UK (DAUK) letter of complaint to the media regulator about ‘misleading’ anti-GP columns in the Telegraph has garnered more than 2,500 signatures. The DAUK wrote to the Independent Press…
