Doctors and nurses cost money. Highly skilled people doing, every day, what very few people could – saving lives. No one, surely, would argue with that? Yet we are doomed, it seems, to be heading to the point where NHS staff are cast as the enemy. How could this be? (more…)
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Nurses Strike: The government MUST listen
Press statement: For All Our sakes, Listen! Doctors for the NHS, which has been campaigning to protect the founding values of the NHS for many years, is appealing to the government to listen to nurses and other healthcare professionals and hear what is painfully obvious: that the NHS is near to collapse and those who….
Essay Winners Announced
We’re delighted to announce the winner and runner-up for this year’s Peter Fisher Essay Prize, ‘To what extent are commerce and compassion compatible in healthcare?’ (more…)
Bringing the Disciplinary to Account
DFNHS EC memberArun Baksi, on why he and his colleagues are proposing a new way of making NHS discipline for doctors fairer (more…)
Taken for fools or waiting for justice?
I see a lot, as an NHS ‘outsider’. I work with doctors and my wife works as a Health Visitor Team Manager. I get to see what is happening to people who work for the NHS ‘at a distance’, but that does lend a certain perspective. What I see is ugly. (more…)
Hunt’s critique of the NHS: was he any better?
DFNHS Chair Dr Colin Hutchinson has questioned Jeremy hunt’s latest critique of the NHS, pointing out in the Guardian that Mr Hunt is hardly in a position to criticise too harshly given his own tenure of the NHS. (more…)
For A Better Place: A Proposal
Doctor for the NHS, along with Doctors’ Association UK (DAUK) is supporting a move lead by DFNHS members Arun Baski and Helen Fielding calling for the setting up of independent Scrutiny Panels in NHS trusts to safeguard against the often vilifying and unfair way disciplinary proceedings are used in hospitals. (more…)
The ‘SOS NHS’ demands are still urgent and relevant
Approve emergency funding of £20 billion to save lives this winter Invest in a fully publicly owned NHS & guarantee free healthcare for future generations Pay staff properly: without fair pay, staffing shortages will cost lives (more…)
Essay Competition 2022
We are delighted to announce our 2022 Essay Competition, the first year for the Peter Fisher Essay Competition Prize, in association with the Royal Society of Medicine and the Journal of the RSM. First prize: £500. PLUS a year’s FREE membership to the RSM! (more…)
Misconduct in Public Office: KONP Report on the Pandemic
Keep our NHS Public have published a damning report on the government’s handling of the pandemic arising from their People’s Inquiry into Covid held earlier this year. (more…)