Emergency statement from Doctors in Unite to Keir Starmer and David Lammy on the deliberate starving to death of Gaza’s children by Israel *. This is an urgent appeal to all healthcare organisations and healthcare workers, as well as members of the public. Please co-sign this statement and email Keir Starmer and David Lammy. Children […]
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Dr John Puntis has written for Keep Our NHS Public on the dangers of further health sector privatisation, criticising government blind spots in plans announced by the Prime Minister in January. Dr Puntis explains that: The full article can be read here.
Doctors in Unite offer solidarity to Dr Patrick Hart who has been imprisoned for a year and must pay thousands of pounds in costs for disabling petrol pumps at Esso Thurrock Services on the M25. As a consequence of the sentence Dr Hart will automatically be referred to the General Medical Council and may lose his licence […]
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Disabled People Against Cuts and Winvisible taking direct action against never-ending scapegoating by politicians (photo: Disability News Service) Statement by Doctors in Unite in response to Sunak’s speech attacking sickness benefits * Doctors in Unite condemns the latest attempt by the Tory government to blame people who are unfit for work and their GPs for […]
At its meeting today, 3rd March 2024, DiU unanimously agreed to endorse an open letter from 40 health groups, calling on the the global health and human rights community to condemn the deliberate destruction of Gaza’s health system by the IDF and its genocide against the Palestinian people. The open letter was co-ordinated by the […]
Summary IPPR has been a major “left of centre” think tank since 1988. In the main, especially during the Blair – Brown years it espoused social market solutions and proposed policies within a framework of the use of commercial disciplines in our public services and the internal market in the NHS. The Economist described it […]
By Martin Blanchard This article is based upon a talk about how our healthcare data is to be used to support our ambition for ‘sustainable’ healthcare, and perhaps more importantly it seems, it is about our government’s expressed ambition that it will ‘kick-start’ economic growth and enable us to become some sort of ‘AI superpower.’ […]
Article in Labour List by Dr Coral Jones, Chair of Doctors in Unite Dr Jones sets out the case for a salaried GP option as an important part of revitalising GP services. Full article here: https://labourlist.org/2023/06/nhs-health-plans-labour-gps-wes-streeting-reform/ “In 2022, Doctors in Unite published Primary Care and Public Health: A Vision for Revitalising General Practice. This radical document […]
Doctors in Unite support the action of Extinction Rebellion in London April 21-24, (“The Big One”) demanding urgent action to tackle the climate change crisis. We have no confidence in the profit-driven energy, oil and other corporations to change course, nor in the Tory government to prioritise the climate catastrophe above short term profiteering. Starmer’s […]
Dr Nabarro’s recent comment that Covid-19 is primarily a droplet-borne infection flies in the face of overwhelming international scientific consensus that the pandemic is driven by airborne transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Despite airborne transmission being accepted as the dominant mode of spread in almost every other arena, within official infection prevention and control (IPC) […]
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