Two directors at Matt Hancock’s local hospital are to step down, it has been announced ahead of the publication of a delayed review into a “witch-hunt” for a whistleblower involving…
The volume of patients, the complexity of illnesses, and the unrelenting nature of the covid pandemic are having a huge impact on morale among our junior doctors, many of whom…
London (CNN)Few would envy Britain's embattled National Health Service (NHS) workers over the past year. One of the world's worst Covid-19 tolls has meant grueling shifts, danger, and workplaces full of grief…
DAUK has joined a coalition of other leading healthcare organisations in urging the government to deliver on its 2018 commitment to strip the GMC of its power to appeal decisions made by the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS).
A coalition of medical organisations is calling for the GMC to swiftly be stripped of its powers to appeal fitness-to-practise tribunal decisions, as an FOI revealed this has happened in…
(View the letter in full here) Joint-letter-to-the-Secretary-ofState-GMC-Right-of-Appeal-finalDownload Healthcare leaders have urged the government to speed up plans to halt GMC appeals against fitness to practice decisions - warning the regulator…
Photo by Luis Melendez on Unsplash Doctors in a survey have unanimously rejected proposals to create an apprenticeship-style scheme as an alternative way of training doctors. Members of the Doctors’ Association UK have…