Government proposals to force GPs to sign fewer sick notes for workers have been rejected by Doctors in Unite, which represents GPs and doctors operating in the NHS. Detailed government proposals were first briefed to the media earlier this month, indicating that the chancellor could announce in next month’s budget changes to the sick note […]
Author: Dr Tom Riddington
Doctors in Unite offer unwavering support to all junior doctors who have voted to take strike action. Junior doctors work relentless hours on the front lines of our hospitals, where their jobs have become ever more intense since the covid pandemic. Newly qualified doctors routinely leave medical school with many tens of thousands of pounds […]
Doctors in Unite fully support our colleagues in the RCN in their strike action. No one withdraws their labour lightly but there comes a point when to carry on is more detrimental than to stop. Nurses work extremely hard and with dedication at the best of times, never more so than during the pandemic, yet […]
On November 6th Doctors in Unite voted unanimously to affiliate with Covid Families for Justice. We continue to support their campaign for a robust public inquiry into the tens of thousands of lives lost during the pandemic. You can find out more about the campaign, and the upcoming public inquiry, here.
On the 7th May, Doctors in Unite expressed its full support for the National Education Union’s five tests before schools could take in more children and colleges re-open. In brief, these tests were: Far lower numbers of COVID-19 cases A national plan for social distancing Testing, testing, testing Whole school strategy for testing in the […]
Doctors in Unite believe that comprehensive, publicly coordinated and community based ‘isolate, trace and support’ procedures are vital for control of the COVID-19 pandemic as lockdown is eased. To keep the frequency of new cases in the community manageable people must be supported to self isolate once they are identified as potentially infectious. To this end […]
In January 2019, Doctors in Unite issued proposals relating to public health and primary care. This document has now been revised. In the light of COVID-19 the authors believe that if these proposals had been implemented before the pandemic struck then the UK would have been able to respond much more quickly to the need […]
Doctors in Unite is delighted that the government have seen sense and ended the NHS surcharge for overseas health workers. We all owe health workers from overseas a huge debt. They often carry out the work which attracts the lowest pay, and without them the NHS would collapse. They don’t just contribute in the hours […]
We believe that the failure of the UK government to properly coordinate testing for COVID-19 has contributed to the UK suffering the highest death toll in Europe. Countries that have had lower mortality adopted robust testing strategies early on. Testing centres are not local to where most people live. A common stipulation is that they […]
The rising death rate from COVID-19 and the pressure of the pandemic on a weakened NHS have caused warranted anxiety. There were reports from Italy of rationing, when life saving equipment was simply unavailable for some sick patients, and difficult triage decisions had to be made by doctors. Many deaths in the UK are occurring […]
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