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Unite regional secretary Sarah Carpenter, seconded a motion on the government’s measures to increase medical students on behalf of Unite.
Addressing the conference she said, “As our health service buckles in the face of chronic overwork, burnout and the crisis of staffing levels, Doctors in Unite will of course welcome commitments to double medical school places.
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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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On International Workers Memorial Day (IWMD), Doctors in Unite (DiU) held a special event at the Covid Memorial Wall in London to call for all health and social care workers (HSCWs) to be issued with…Read more…
The call for all health and social care workers (HSCWs) to be issued with special equipment – respiratory protective equipment (RPE) – as the Covid crisis continues will be highlighted tomorrow…Read more…
The campaign against the relentless tide of NHS privatisation will continue, despite a judicial review dismissing the campaigners’ case that there was a lack of patient consultation when GP practices…Read more…
The takeover of GP practices in London by US health insurance giant Centene Corporation will be subject of a judicial review in early 2022 after more than £70,000 has been raised by the public to…Read more…
Doctors in Unite (DiU) staged a protest on Tuesday (January 27)over the failure to offer proper PPE protection against airborne transmission to health and social care staff during the continuing…Read more…
Doctors in Unite held a demonstration on Wednesday (July 27) to highlight the urgent need for all health workers to be issued with FFP3 masks. DiU chair and GP Dr Jackie Applebee explains why this…Read more…
Doctors in Unite (DiU) has organised a demonstration in London tomorrow (Tuesday 27 July) over the failure to offer proper PPE protection against airborne transmission to health and social care staff…Read more…
The takeover of GP practices in London by US health insurance giant Centene Corporation could be the subject of a judicial review, Unite the union has said. Campaigners, including members of Doctors…Read more…
Doctors in Unite (DiU) GPs and health campaigners were out in full force on Thursday (April 22) at a socially distanced demo protesting the takeover of London GP practices by an American healthcare…Read more…
In just two days’ time Unite GPs will be making a stand. The protest is against GP practices being taken over by US health insurance giant Centene Corporation – branded as ‘the accelerating…Read more…
It’s not genetics, vitamin D, underlying conditions, or lifestyle choices causing disproportionate deaths of black and Asian people from Covid-19. It is poverty and racism, says a report by Doctors…Read more…
Hopes of a light at the end of the Covid-19 tunnel were running high after a new breakthrough on a coronavirus vaccine was announced this week, but Unite has urged caution. US pharmaceutical giant…Read more…
As NHS workers from across London prepare to march to Downing Street this evening (July 29) to demand an early pay rise, a new poll has shown that an overwhelming majority of the British public backs…Read more…
Dr Singer, a GP, had been chair of Doctors in Unite (DiU), formerly known as the Medical Practitioners’ Union (MPU). The union formed of mostly GPs celebrated its centenary in 2014.
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The picturesque Cornish fishing village of Mevagissey was up against a problem faced by many rural and coastal areas – it desperately needed a GP. When their local family doctor Dr Katherine…Read more…
In today’s papers (February 26) we read about a single GP in Shropshire who is covering night-time home visits for a population of half a million – a workload that was shared by eight GPs ten years…Read more…
All patients will have the right to see GPs online within the next five years, NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens pledged yesterday (January 7) as he unveiled the new NHS Long-Term Plan….Read more…
Doctors in Unite (DiU) has slammed health secretary Matt Hancock for uncritically endorsing the controversial GP at Hand app, which has drawn criticism from the medical community and beyond and is…Read more…