Doctors for the NHS Chair Eric Watts was invited to be part of the studio audience for a new series of topical discussion programmes by ITV, The Agenda. The opening subject of this week’s prime-time debate (18 October, 8-9 pm) was on the financial state of the NHS, and a panel of experts gave their opinions….
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A video that answers all the right questions
Published on 7 October, 2016 in News / Blog, NHS Threats, Privatisation, Staff conditions, Your views
Doctors for the NHS member and Keep Our NHS Public Co-Chair Dr Tony O’Sullivan has been videod by Ealing Save Our NHS, answering the questions people ask about the NHS: is it being privatised, isn’t private better, why the NHS is best. This absolutely needs to be seen. Widely.
Press release: A solution to doctor recruitment shortage denied
[6 October 2016] Doctors for the NHS has learned that the government is blocking any further expansion of a scheme which would solve the problem with shortages in doctor numbers without threatening net migration or disadvantaging doctors from resource-poor countries – the very week Jeremy Hunt pledges to make the NHS “Self sufficient” in doctors…..
Press release: If you want to fight cancer, stop cutting the NHS
[5 October 2016] Doctors for the NHS is calling on the government to restore NHS funding to improve the parlous state of cancer services in much of England[1]. The news about the state of cancer services follows years of chronic under-funding and cuts to services, leaving the NHS on the brink of collapse as GPs….
DFNHS Chair writes to GMC
Dr Eric Watts, DFNHS Chair, has written to the Chair of the General Medical Council about the parlous state of the NHS and the working conditions of doctors and has received a lengthy reply. (more…)
AGM and Annual Conference 1 October London: Now is the time
The AGM and Conference is tackling the issues that are shaking the NHS to its very core, and have been making national news lately, hearing from expert speakers. If you are in DFHNS and can make it to London on 1 October, come and hear all about it for yourself: and have a say in what the….
Will Hunt give us numbers now?
With today’s announcement of forthcoming industrial action by Juniors [1] and the revelation last week of profound concerns over the true effects of the STPs throughout England [2], it it timely to point out that the BMA has called for the government to back up, once and for all, what it is claiming about the….
EWTD: Comments
Comment on Mark Aitken’s opinion piece on EWTD (more…)
The consultants ARE next: BBC story on ‘overtime’ reveals real agenda
The recent BBC story on how much NHS consultants were being paid as ‘overtime’ revealed this government’s true agenda for their next target: the consultant contract. Doctors for the NHS defended the need for the NHS to be staffed and funded properly, which was the real reason behind the need for some consultants to be….
The EWTD: An idea whose time has gone?
With the Brexiteers having won the race to the bottom of the credibility pole, could this cloud of confusion have a silver lining? If there was one thing that broke the back of a failing Emergency Service, it was the European Working Time Directive (EWTD). (more…)