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Surgeons working beneath bright surgical light. DAUK has condemned sexist stereotypes in surgery perpetuated in a national newspaper article.

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May 7, 2025

Statement on sexist stereotypes in surgery
Group of doctors in green scrubs holding the top of each others hands.
Blogs: Medical student committee members on bottlenecks in speciality training

May 7, 2025
Image of a GP using a stethoscope. Members of our GP committee have written an editorial on the uncertain future of GP partnerships in England
‘GP partnership model cornerstone of English primary care’

May 7, 2025
Head and shoulders photo of former DAUK chair Dr Jenny Vaughan. The Jenny Vaughan Memorial Conference takes place on 17 May.
Bookings open to join Jenny Vaughan Memorial Conference online

May 2, 2025

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General Practice
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
General Practice
NHS England’s top GP quits Twitter over its ‘toxic and demoralising’ atmosphere for doctors as DAUK GPs Dr Ellen Welch and Dr Lizzie Toberty warn ‘the consequences of this false narrative are deadly serious’

Dr Nikki Kanani said the social media site has many benefits “but sometimes it’s impossible to really set out the challenges of a situation” and will continue to listen to colleagues and patients through other ways. England’s top GP is quitting Twitter saying she has been left with little choice due to…

September 7, 2021
General Practice
‘Nazi b*****ds’: GPs facing torrent of abuse and violence as patient frustration boils over, with DAUK GP Dr Lizzie Croton giving her side of the story

Doctors and their staff working in GP surgeries across England are reporting a torrent of abuse from patients, with some receiving hate mail while others have been left shaking and in tears by physical and verbal attacks. Some family doctors have told The Independent they fear coming to work, and have seen staff quit over the…

September 7, 2021
General Practice
BMA blasts ‘completely unfair’ newspaper column suggesting GPs deserve abuse – Dr Shan Hussain speaks out in The Pulse

The BMA has written to the Telegraph in response to Allison Pearson’s ‘completely unfair’ column, in which she said she is ‘not surprised’ GPs have received a torrent of abuse. BMA GP committee chair Dr Richard Vautrey said in a letter to the national newspaper that he read the column with ‘despair and anger’…

September 7, 2021
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