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Open letter to the Sudanese Ambassador to the UK

23.04.2023 Dear Ambassador Abdalla Ali Eltom Call for Urgent Action: Protect the civilians in Sudan and stop the conflict. Doctors in Unite express solidarity with health workers in Sudan who are calling for an immediate ceasefire to end the horrific violence within Sudan. At huge cost to the Sudanese people, rival generals are fighting for […]

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Doctors in Unite support XR protest on 21-24 April

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 […]

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Doctors in Unite vote for Industrial Action

Junior doctor members of Doctors in Unite have recently voted for industrial action and will be taking action alongside colleagues in the BMA and HCSA in the strike starting on April 11th. We are now preparing to ballot our consultant members. In order to do this, we need to ensure that membership details are up […]

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Doctors in Unite stand in solidarity with striking junior doctors

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 […]

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Where’s the evidence Dr Nabarro?

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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Motion on Climate Crisis to Unite Policy Conference

Doctors in Unite passed the following motion on 22 January 2023, to be submitted to the Unite Policy Conference in July 2023. This conference recognises that: Unite policies include a number of controversial and unproven technologies, often promoted by vested interests, for example: This conference acknowledges that NO NEW fossil fuels should be extracted if […]

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Statement of Solidarity with the RCN

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 […]

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Doctors in Unite vote to affiliate with Covid Families for Justice

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.

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Doctors in Unite motion to Labour Party conference September 2022 unanimously carried

Dr Coral Jones proposed and Dr Louise Irvine seconded a motion defending the NHS and calling for an end to all privatisation within the NHS, at the recent Labour Party conference. The resolution was carried unanimously. Their speeches can be seen here, from 47 minutes. The motion Conference notes: 12 years of Conservative underfunding, neglect […]

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The Five Health Frontiers. A New Radical Blueprint

by Christopher Thomas. Pluto Press This book provides a helpful and eminently readable overview of ‘health’ and how a government with a ‘health justice agenda’ might effect meaningful change. ‘The left’ (a troublingly amorphous concept that casts the Royal Colleges in the role of key institutions of the ‘health labour movement’) is castigated for being […]