A living wage for all health staff!Save our NHS! Doctors in Unite the Union support resident doctors fighting to restore their living standards and conditions after long-term government attacks.A doctor qualifying in 1985 after five years study had paid no tuition fees. A doctor qualifying this year has paid £46,250 fees, with average debt £50,000-£90,000.In […]
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 […]
Inquiry into the future of general practice in Wales Over two decades ago The Review of Health and Social Care in Wales (Wanless Review 2003) recommended that there needed to be a greater emphasis on prevention and early intervention to ensure that the health and care service in Wales would be able to meet future […]
Last week Doctors in Unite acknowledged the positive potential of the abolition of NHS England as a reversal of the catastrophic changes made to the NHS by Conservative ministers in 2012, as part of the widely criticised Lansley reforms. But the devil is in the details. Without clarity on the future of NHS England employees, […]
At the Doctors in Unite AGM on February 2nd 2025 we voted to support the Fare Free London campaign. The dangers of air pollution in London are plain, with tragic consequences. We all deserve the health benefits of clean, safe transport. Congestion and travel time reduces when public transport is the norm. So does inequality. […]
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 […]
Doctors in Unite wish to express our grave concern for the welfare of Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, Director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in north Gaza, who was detained and beaten by Israeli military forces on 28 December 2024. We call for his immediate release along with the other staff from the Kamal Adwan Hospital who […]
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Towards a Ten Year Vision The recently published Darzi Review on the NHS in England was commissioned to provide a background context for the new Labour government’s ten year plan for the NHS which is due to be launched in spring 2025. It highlights the damage done to primary care in England by the previous […]
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“Sick note Britain”
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 […]
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