As trusts cancel operations to prepare for COVID-19 Dr Samantha Batt-Rawden the Doctors’ Association Co-Founder expressed her support for the decision, but questions why the government has left the NHS so unprepared after years of under-staffing.
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.
As the CQC downgrades West Suffolk hospital’s rating from Outstanding to Requires Improvement DAUK Chair Dr Rinesh Parmar raises questions for the Health Secretary who ‘buried his head in the sand’ when doctors tried to approach him with patient safety concerns.
Following allegations from staff that West Suffolk started a finger-printing ‘witch hunt’ to identify an anonymous whistleblower, Dr Rinesh Parmar DAUK Chair talks to The Guardian after fresh concerns are raised.
The government has ordered an urgent inquiry into the local hospital of the Health Secretary after DAUK revealed its unprecedented ‘witch-hunt’ for a whistleblower in The Guardian.
Patients have had to sleep overnight in the Emergency Department of one the NHS’s biggest hospitals because it is overwhelmed by the number of people needing care. In recent weeks DAUK has highlighted how hospitals are struggling to cope this winter including at The Royal Cornwall hospital.
Last month DAUK and the Guardian revealed that the anonymous letter had prompted an unprecedented “witch-hunt” by the hospital bosses to try to identify the staff member who had sent the letter. This week the Guardian further revealed that the trust had spent more than £2,500 on handwriting and fingerprint experts. DAUK Chair Dr Rinesh Parmar speaks to The Guardian as the inquest is adjourned.
