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DAUK GPs Dr Lizzie Toberty and Dr Ellen Welch, speak to the Financial Times – ‘General practice is changing as doctors shift to flexible working patterns’

Lizzie Toberty, a 35-year-old GP in north east England who is a member of the grassroots campaign group Doctors’ Association UK, believes in the principle of partner-led practices rooted in communities, she still declined tobecome a partner in her former practice. As a doctor, “you want a say in how…

DAUK’s joint letter in the BMJ- ‘NHS staff face growing tide of abuse from patients frustrated by long waits for care’

Dear Editor We are doctors' associations representing the NHS staff and employers. We welcome the concerns raised by the BMA and other organisations. We also wish to emphasise that any form of verbal or physical abuse of health and care staff is completely unacceptable. These distressing incidents cannot and should…

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DAUK’s joint letter to the health secretary – lack of access to secondary care referral pathways

Gp Online and Medscape wrote about our letter to Sajid Javid - you can read the letter here: Dear The Rt Hon Sajid Javid, We write to you as a very concerned group of GPs regarding the lack of access to secondary care referral pathways. You will of course be…

PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Doctors call for increased GP access to secondary care

“The lack of GP access to secondary care referral pathways is not acceptable”, say doctors from The Doctors’ Association, Doctors for the NHS, GP Survival and 999 Call for the NHS in an open letter to Health Secretary Sajid Javid. With an ever-increasing strain on primary care, GPs are currently…

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