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Where a ‘part-time’ week is 38 hours: Stop blaming the GP

DAUK's Editorial Lead Dr Ellen Welch was quoted in The Times, pointing out that the criticism levelled at the increasing numbers of so-called 'part-time' GPs is being made when that means an average 38-hour working week and GPs are having to see almost one-and-a-half times as many patients as the…

Covid Rule Relaxation: Irresponsible Government

Relaxation of Covid rules was endangering Emergency Medicine, the government has been told. DAUK Vic-Chair Danny Bhagawati is quoted in the Independent spelling out just what the dangers are:  “Currently, multiple sectors are experiencing Covid-related absence since an abandonment of all precautions. Hospitals and GP surgeries are perilously short staffed…

Time to save the World: “It’s now or never”

DAUK's Dr Matthew Lee writes Global carbon emissions must peak by 2025 at the latest and be falling rapidly by 2030 in order to prevent the worst impacts of climate change, according to a report released this week by the International Panel on Climate Change. However, current policies do not…

The Calm Voice of Reason

DAUK's Chair Jenny Vaughan was quoted in what could otherwise have been an alarmist piece about doctors acting unprofessionally or even criminally in the Sunday Mirror, where she points out that the numbers of doctors acting in this way is a tiny minority.

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