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January 15, 2025

Physician associates legal ruling welcomed
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Government urged to act as record heat puts public health at risk

January 10, 2025
Black and white head and shoulders photo of DAUK chair Ms Helen Fernandes. Helen has welcomed a legal ruling on physician associates
Fund social care and GPs to ease NHS winter pressures

January 10, 2025
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Government urged to work with GPs to reduce waiting lists

January 7, 2025

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GMC urged to learn from racism ruling and stop ‘wasting money’ on costly legal appeal

The GMC should seek to learn from a ruling that it discriminated against a doctor on the grounds of his race rather than 'wasting fee-paying doctors' money' on a costly legal appeal, a doctors' group has said. Read the full article here.

July 22, 2021
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DAUK PRESSES FOR GREATER NHS RACE AWARENESS AS GMC APPEALS RACISM VERDICT

PRESS RELEASE DAUK were disappointed to learn that following the successful employment tribunal of Mr Omer Karim, a renowned robotic surgeon, the General Medical Council (GMC) is appealing against the verdict of institutional racism for which it was held responsible.    In 2014, Mr Karim – a consultant urologist of Sudanese…

July 8, 2021
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DAUK in GPOnline: “International staff play a vital role in the NHS”

The role played by international staff in the NHS received widespread media coverage recently after current head of NHS Test and Trace Baroness Dido Harding said she wanted to make the NHS less reliant on foreign doctors and nurses if she became the next head of NHS England. As a ‘foreign’ doctor…

July 8, 2021
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DAUK in BMJ News: “Bawa-Garba is free to practise again without restrictions after tribunal ruling”

Hadiza Bawa-Garba has been allowed to practise again without restrictions, 10 years after a 6 year old boy in her care died of septic shock following a mistaken diagnosis of gastroenteritis. A well regarded trainee paediatrician at the time Jack Adcock died in 2011, Bawa-Garba was later found guilty of…

July 8, 2021
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