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Dr Neena Jha receives her Jenny Vaughan Memorial Prize from Jenny's husband, Dr Matt Dunckley.

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May 20, 2025

Jenny Vaughan Memorial Prize winner
Head and shoulders photo of Dr Steve Taylor in his GP surgery. Dr Taylor has warned that general practices in Northern Ireland are on their knees
‘GPs in Northern Ireland on their knees’

May 20, 2025
Front of the programme for DAUK's Jenny Vaughan Memorial Conference
Jenny Vaughan Memorial Conference line-up

May 15, 2025
Dr Leyla Hannbeck, chief executive of the Independent Pharmacies Association, speaking to a room of people at their Westminster event.
DAUK joined pharmacy leaders and MPs at Westminster event

May 15, 2025

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Black and white head and shoulders photo of DAUK chair Ms Helen Fernandes
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DAUK welcomes reversal of cuts to hospital doctors’ mental health service

Doctors' Association UK (DAUK) co-chair Ms Helen Fernandes says she is delighted that cuts to mental health and addiction services for NHS hospital doctors have been reversed. NHS England (NHSE) today announced that the Practitioner Health service for secondary care doctors, dentists and senior NHS staff would be extended by…

April 15, 2024
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Figures showing one-third of doctors considering leaving UK practice ‘unsurprising’, says DAUK GP lead

DAUK’s GP lead Lizzie Toberty has told national radio listeners she is not surprised by new research that shows almost one in three doctors could be considering leaving UK practice. A survey of doctors by the General Medical Council asked how likely they were to move abroad to practise medicine…

April 12, 2024
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Guest blog: Dr Peter Bailey urges a rethink on ‘wrong and irrational’ stop to funding for NHS Practitioner Health

The new commissioners for NHS Practitioner Health have decided to ‘pause’ funding for hospital doctors with mental health problems including addiction from Monday (15 April) – at short notice. NHS Practitioner health is a free, confidential primary care mental health and addiction service with expertise in treating health and care…

April 12, 2024
Group of doctors in green scrubs holding the top of each others hands.
Compassionate Culture DAUK News Protect the Frontline
Practitioner Health funding to be pulled for hospital doctors

A move to stop funding mental health and addiction services for NHS hospital doctors has been described as ‘cruel’ by the Doctors’ Association UK (DAUK). NHS Practitioner Health has been given just days’ notice that its funding for secondary care will be paused from this Monday (15 April). This is…

April 12, 2024
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