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May 15, 2025

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DAUK joined pharmacy leaders and MPs at Westminster event

May 15, 2025
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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…

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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’…

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“Blaming GPs for problems accessing care will not solve anything – better support and funding is needed” DAUK in Politics Home

Read the full article here "Let them eat cake”, said Marie Antoinette prior to the French Revolution – revealing how out of touch the Queen was from her people. Once widely reported, it contributed to the uprising and her eventual demise. However, she never said it. It is one of history's earliest…

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DAUK in The Times: “NHS doctors and nurses suffer ‘sinister tide’ of abuse”

Senior doctors and nurses have 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. Health organisations that represent hundreds of thousands of NHS staff are speaking out against a “sinister tide” of abuse…

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