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A fishing trawler heading out to sea. DAUK is concerned an outright ban on seabed bottom trawling in all UK marine-protected areas has not been introduced.

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September 13, 2025

Concern at Government rejection of bottom trawling ban
DAUK co-chair Dr Ellen Welch provided commentary in the national media on the impact on GPs of the rollout of weight-loss treatment
DAUK in the media: Demand for NHS weight-loss treatment impacting GPs

September 13, 2025
Dr Steve Taylor speaking at the DAUK conference. Dr Taylor has warned the Government’s pledge to ‘bring back the family doctor’ is little more than political posturing.
‘Government GP pledge political posturing’

September 9, 2025
Courts of Justice, which heard the legal challenge over the regulation of physician assistants.
DAUK response to High Court ruling on physician assistants

September 6, 2025

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Group of doctors in green scrubs holding the top of each others hands.
DAUK News
‘Doctors being side-lined and professional responsibilities blurred’

The Doctors’ Association UK (DAUK) has warned that doctors are being side-lined and professional responsibilities blurred. DAUK fears a new competencies framework represents the creeping substitution of doctors with other healthcare professionals (HCPs). The recently published National Capabilities Framework for Professionals who care for Children and Young People with Asthma…

September 5, 2025
Dr Steve Taylor speaking at the DAUK conference. Dr Taylor has warned the Government’s pledge to ‘bring back the family doctor’ is little more than political posturing.
DAUK News
Renewed call to move ARRS money into core funding

The Doctors’ Association UK (DAUK) has renewed its call for ARRS money to be moved into core general practice funding. Dr Steve Taylor, DAUK’s GP co-lead, said it would be a ‘huge step forward’ for patient access. DAUK has long argued that additional role reimbursement scheme (ARRS) funding would be…

September 3, 2025
A man taking a high-caffeine energy drink out of a chiller cabinet.
DAUK News
‘Ban on energy drinks for under-16s will help children and the NHS’

DAUK says plans to ban the sale of high-caffeine energy drinks to under-16 will 'benefit individuals, society, and the NHS'. The Department of Health says its proposals could prevent obesity in up to 40,000 children, and deliver health benefits worth tens of millions of pounds. Around 100,000 children consume at…

September 3, 2025
Group of doctors in green scrubs holding the top of each others hands.
Learn Not Blame The NHS
Free webinar: Why can’t we learn from our mistakes?

Consultant dermatologist Dr Barry Monk delivers his lecture Why can't we learn from our mistakes? in this free webinar. It was the Milroy Lecture to the Royal College of Physicians in 2023. In it, Dr Monk explores mistakes that can happen in healthcare and the lessons we can learn from…

August 28, 2025
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