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Government Policy Uncategorized

Response from Doctors in Unite to the Institute of Public Policy Research discussion document ‘Reforming Health and Social Care’ published September 2023

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 […]

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Defend the NHS Government Policy Privatisation Uncategorized

‘GPs don’t want practices nationalised or privatised – but many want change’

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 […]

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Defend the NHS Government Policy

NHS Crisis – who profits, and what are they doing with our healthcare data?

Talk given by Martin Blanchard (KONP data Working Group / Doctors in Unite) for the ‘NHS Crisis: who profits?’ meeting KONP Merseyside 12th July 2023. I will not discuss the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill in this article because the KONP data Working Group have provided a full briefing and letter for MPs for […]

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NPF Submissions

National Policy Forum (2023) Submissions

The attached documents were submitted to the Labour Party National Policy Forum by our union. As an affiliated trade union, Unite has an opportunity to help shape Labour’s future agenda. You can learn more about the National Policy Forum here.

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DiU Policy Statements Government Policy

Doctors in Unite reject government plans to force the sick to work

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 […]

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Hostile Environment

Resist NHS migrant charges. 

If you’re a health worker, please challenge these charges wherever you come across them.  If you’d like to join the campaign to support the right of everyone to NHS care, contact Patients not Passports or the Migrant Support Group at Medact. The following motion was passed unanimously at a recent DiU meeting. Doctors in UNITE […]

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Government Policy Occupational Health

A National Occupational Health Service

Doctors in Unite Policy Paper, September 2021 SUMMARY Up to a third of UK social class differences in health was probably caused by work 50 years ago. Since then, many hazardous jobs have been exported but new types of unhealthy work have emerged. Work can be bad for health but so is unemployment. The most […]

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Integrated Care Systems

“Wo ich war, sollte es werden” [1]

[1] With apologies to Freud. ‘Wo es war, soll Ich werden’ – “Where it was, I should become” – is his version of the Enlightenment goal of knowledge that is in itself an act of liberation – the ego replaces id and so we develop. Here we have the reverse, ‘Where I was, it should […]

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Integrated Care Systems

integrated care systems (ics) and the Health and Care Bill 2021-22

Statement by Doctors in Unite The Health and Care Bill is now in Parliament, and a new Health Secretary in charge. Doctors in Unite branch of Unite the Union opposes the Bill, and calls for MPs and Lords of all parties to vote against it at every opportunity. The Bill splinters the NHS into 42 […]

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Integrated Care Systems

Integrated Care Systems threaten patient care, jobs, pay, working conditions and the integrity of the NHS as a public service. we oppose them.

Resolution on ICSs 9 May 2020 Doctors in Unite notes: Doctors in Unite believes: Doctors in Unite resolves: .