{"id":1018,"date":"2022-08-12T15:35:19","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T14:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/dauk-co-chair-ellen-welch-speaks-to-the-morning-star\/"},"modified":"2022-08-12T15:35:19","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T14:35:19","slug":"dauk-co-chair-ellen-welch-speaks-to-the-morning-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/dauk-co-chair-ellen-welch-speaks-to-the-morning-star\/","title":{"rendered":"DAUK co-chair Ellen Welch speaks to the Morning Star"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following the death of Dr Gail Milligan, DAUK said the \u201ctime to act is now,&#8221; with GP services at \u201cboiling point\u201d and the pressures on practitioners mounting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe tragic death of a dedicated colleague must act as a wake-up call for our leaders to take action to support us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr Ellen Welch, a GP and co-chairwoman of the association, said the reality for most GPs includes working 12-plus hour days, during which doctors are \u201cjuggling\u201d clinical work with \u201cmountains\u201d of unseen tasks.<br \/><br \/>She said: \u201cHow many more doctors have to burn out, retire early or even die before it clicks that the problem is fundamentally with the system and not the people within it who are trying their best.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMy thoughts are with Dr Milligan\u2019s family.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the full story <a href=\"https:\/\/morningstaronline.co.uk\/article\/b\/doctors-warn-gp-services-at-boiling-point-following-suicide\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the death of Dr Gail Milligan, DAUK said the \u201ctime to act is now,&#8221; with GP services at \u201cboiling point\u201d and the pressures on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[310],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}