Doctors in UniteDoctors in Unite mark events in Leeds, Sheffield and London on 28 April 2022 Among the many events held across the country and internationally to mark IWMD, DiU members were involved in events in Sheffield, Leeds and London. The theme of this year’s commemoration is safety at work, i.e. that a safe workplace is a […]
Philip D’Arcy Hart was born in 1900. His father gave up a legal career to become a popular artist of the period. His mother was the daughter of a progressive Liberal MP for Whitechapel towards the end of the 19th Century. D’Arcy Hart qualified as a doctor in 1925, studying at Cambridge and University College […]
We held our AGM on 6th February 2022. Our Chair Jackie Applebee, referenced the amount of work that had taken place over the last year in weekly meetings responding to Covid issues. This had resulted in a number of position statements, campaigning, support and information sharing. Going forward meetings will be fortnightly: a Branch Meeting […]
Sunday 9th January 2022. Ambassador Erlan Idrissov, 125, Pall Mall St James London SW1Y 5EA Dear Ambassador Idrissov Doctors in Unite branch of the UK and Ireland trade union Unite is writing to you to protest at the brutal repression of demonstrators throughout Kazakhstan and the state of emergency in Almaty and Mangistau. It is […]
The Health and Social Care Committee has launched an enquiry into the future of general practice, “examining the key challenges facing general practice over the next five years as well as the biggest current and ongoing barriers to access to general practice.” Further information can be found here. This is the submission Doctors in Unite […]
A model resolution for trade union branches Detailed information is here PDF copy for downloading and printing here:
Pioneering GP who helped transform primary health care in Britain My friend Brian Colston, who has died aged 99, was one of a generation of pioneering GPs who helped to transform primary health care in Britain. Over more than 40 years he developed a range of innovative services of national significance in Birmingham’s inner city. […]
Guidelines are fundamentally flawed and putting health care workers and patients at serious risk UK infection control guidelines are not fit for purpose. IPC authorities are increasingly isolated in their view that Covid-19 is spread by droplets and not through the air, a position which is directly contradicted now by official government policy. What follows […]
Resolution adopted by Doctors in Unite 12 Dec 2021 This branch believes that: Covid-19 is overwhelmingly transmitted by airborne spread – people breathe in the virus from the surrounding air. Airborne protections are therefore essential to stop transmission. Omicron, like all Covid-19 variants, is airborne. Airborne protection means providing clean air in the workplace and […]
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