Doctors in Unite

The British Medial Journal has reported on a letter addressed to the Department of Health and Social Care from Doctors in Unite, accusing the government of silencing healthcare professionals from speaking out against the genocide in Gaza.  You can read the  complete article here (paywalled, BMJ members can log in for the full text version).

Doctors in Unite member Dr Brian Fisher has written two pieces for Left Foot Forward, where he argues the economic case for creating a robust social care service. Brian has worked as a GP in southeast London for over 40 years, and was awarded an MBE for his work in community development in 2007.   Brian  makes […]

The capture of our public infrastructure by private behemoths By Martin Blanchard, August 2025 The UK government’s ‘Cloud First’ policy is resulting in the use of US big tech (including Microsoft, Google, AWS, Apple and Oracle) digital infrastructure aka ‘public cloud’ across public services including the NHS, where its use has been made central to any successful […]

The Government’s 10 Year Plan Health Plan for England (10YP) has met a mixed reception. It has been critiqued by a wide range of individuals and organisations, but little by way of alternatives has emerged. In our 2022 policy document ‘Primary Care & Public Health: A Vision for Revitalising General Practice‘ Doctors in Unite proposed […]

The NHS 10 Year Plan attempts to solve the problems of underfunding of the NHS and the aggravation of those problems by the inefficiencies induced by markets and a neglect of prevention. Incredibly, it seeks to achieve these goals without substantial new money and with extremely limited reference to public health, while putting the process […]

This document outlines Doctors in Unite’s (DIU) perspective on the government’s 10 Year Plan for primary care. As a part  of Unite the Union, DIU believes in a publicly funded, publicly provided, and comprehensive National Health Service. Our aim is to ensure primary care, with General Practice as its cornerstone, is at the heart of […]

20th September 2025  Dear Secretary of State,   I was surprised and saddened to hear you address GPs as “laggards” at the BMA SRM, who are rightly worried by the imposition of unlimited online consultations from October 1st without appropriate safeguards. Doctors in Unite members are physicians, including GPs, who are choosing to join a Labour affiliated trade […]

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.  A living wage for all health staff  In 1985 qualifying doctors […]

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 […]