David Zigmond, a member of DFNHS’s Executive Committee, summarises his thoughts, drawing on five decades of experience as a frontline doctor (more…)
NHS Threats
The Peter Fisher Essay Prize 2023 – First Prize £500
Doctors for the NHS in association with the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine is delighted to announce the Peter Fisher Essay Prize for 2023. (more…)
More democracy needed for the NHS
The NHS needs democratising – EC member Mike Galvin points to one solution in the BMJ (13 March)
Privatisation deals are the road to destruction
The founding principles of the NHS have long been under attack, but now it seems that some politicians from both Conservative and Labour parties are predicting its impending collapse unless radically reformed. (more…)
Striking for the NHS
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…)
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….
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…)