Call to extend Practitioner Health to Northern Ireland
The Doctors Association UK (DAUK) has joined calls by leading medical organisations for an urgent extension of NHS Practitioner Health in Northern Ireland. We’ve signed…
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Mental Health Awareness Week: Not the NHS Again podcast on healthcare workforce crisis
The latest edition of the Not the NHS Again podcast focuses on the growing mental health crisis affecting…
‘Mental health funding needs to improve to better support people
Policymakers need to focus on why people are seeking help for their mental health and whether adequate support…
DAUK GP shares her story with national TV viewers
DAUK’s Dr Sarah Jacques shared her powerful story of burning out as a GP on national breakfast television.…
Mental Health Awareness Week: Mental health resources
The Doctors’ Association UK (DAUK) is supporting Mental Health Awareness Week, which runs from May 13 to 19.…
DAUK welcomes reversal of cuts to hospital doctors’ mental health service
Doctors’ Association UK (DAUK) co-chair Ms Helen Fernandes says she is delighted that cuts to mental health and…
Practitioner Health funding to be pulled for hospital doctors
A move to stop funding mental health and addiction services for NHS hospital doctors has been described as…
GPs are struggling to cope with growing mental health crisis – DAUK’s Louise Hyde in Politics Home
Mental health care and general practice are in deeper crisis than ever before. We need a political solution.…
Call for health workers to get mental health support like veterans post-pandemic
Healthcare staff who have worked through the coronavirus crisis should have a similar mental health service as that…
DAUK in the BMJ: “Junior doctors’ morale: the pandemic Groundhog Day
The volume of patients, the complexity of illnesses, and the unrelenting nature of the covid pandemic are having…