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December 23, 2024

Physician associates: Our letter to the Lancet
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GP committee responds to funding and reforms announcement

December 20, 2024
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Physician associates: Regulation framework ‘not fit for purpose’

December 12, 2024
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Guest blog: The increasing health impact of the climate crisis

December 12, 2024

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DAUK lead call for an appeal for Dr Raisah Sawati against MPTS erasure decision

The Doctors’ Association UK (DAUK), along with Dr Anil Jain (Consultant Radiologist ) have successfully lobbied the Medical Defence Union to agree to fund an appeal for Dr Raisah Sawati against the decision of the MPTS to erase her in August 2021. Her husband, Dr Azhar Khan, (also a junior…

September 20, 2021
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1,600 GPs back DAUK’S complaint over media coverage of access to primary care

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 practice. In a letter to the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), DAUK chair Dr Jenny Vaughan said negative coverage risked ‘eroding public…

September 20, 2021
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DAUK reports Telegraph to media regulator over ‘misleading’ GP coverage

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 Standards Organisation (IPSO) on Friday to report Telegraph columnist Allison Pearson for breaching the Editors’ Code of Practice with ‘inaccurate’ articles. The letter,…

September 20, 2021
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GPs are not lazy – we are working harder than ever says DAUK’s Dr Elizabeth Croton as she gives an insight into a typical day

It’s 8am and I’m already sitting in front of my computer at the surgery. I prescribe myself some coffee and scroll through the blood results and hospital letters that have accumulated since yesterday. There are at least one hundred of them in total.  I get through as many as I…

September 20, 2021
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