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December 31, 2024

DAUK review of the year
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Physician associates: Our letter to the Lancet

December 23, 2024
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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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Tips to Cope With the Challenge of Changeover Day

Changeover Day is the first Wednesday in August when thousands of newly qualified doctors start and junior doctors' rotations begin. DAUK's Dr Priyadarshini Bhattacharjee made some suggestions on how this day could be improved. Changeover Day is the first Wednesday in August when thousands of newly qualified doctors start and junior…

August 13, 2021
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The next battle for the NHS: Sajid Javid v Rishi Sunak

DAUK GP, Dr Lizzie Toberty adds her thoughts on the soaring waiting lists and an exhausted workforce situation, which needs billions to avoid a crisis. Will the health secretary persuade a hard-nosed chancellor to fund the health service? It has taken a combination of sheer grit, creativity and the adoption…

August 13, 2021
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NHS staff release video of the abuse they face from patients – with racist slurs and false Covid claims

Senior doctors have warned that abuse towards healthcare workers has increased since Covid restrictions were lifted in England last month and DAUK GP Dr Ellen Welch said the abuse had become endemic. NHS staff have released a video detailing the abuse they have received from patients including racist slurs, legal threats, and…

August 13, 2021
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NHS doctors and nurses suffer ‘sinister tide’ of abuse

DAUK GP Dr Ellen Welch has, along with other senior doctors and nurses, condemned abuse directed at healthcare workers after the head of the Royal College of Midwives received death threats for encouraging pregnant women to have the Covid vaccine. Read the full article here.

August 13, 2021
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