{"id":1041,"date":"2022-09-16T08:11:33","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T07:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/the-times-view-on-nhs-cancellation-and-the-queens-funeral-dauks-response\/"},"modified":"2022-09-16T08:11:33","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T07:11:33","slug":"the-times-view-on-nhs-cancellation-and-the-queens-funeral-dauks-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/the-times-view-on-nhs-cancellation-and-the-queens-funeral-dauks-response\/","title":{"rendered":"The Times&#8217; view on NHS cancellation and the Queen&#8217;s Funeral: DAUK&#8217;s Response"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On September 15, 2022, The Times published a piece titled &#8220;The Times view on the Queen\u2019s funeral and the NHS: Cancel Culture&#8221;, which claimed, &#8220;The occasion ought not to be cause for the health service to deny patients care.&#8221; \n\nOur GP lead Dr Lizzie Toberty has written a response to this article, which is<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/6e12949a-351d-11ed-838f-27529d647dcb?shareToken=02f253f86bf5e42cc86f1cbd40ca3d4c\"> published in The Times<\/a>. The full letter is below: \n\nSir, Your leading article on NHS cancellations on Monday, for the Queen\u2019s funeral (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/the-times-view-on-the-queens-funeral-and-the-nhs-cancel-culture-t9xpwdsp8\" data-di-id=\"di-id-61813fcc-f45edea1\">Sep 15<\/a>), raises the issue of how to balance the need to respect Her Majesty with the needs of our patients. Once again our leaders are trying to shift the blame to individual employers, rather than providing conditions, extra funding and practical advice on how services, hospitals or GP practices could stay open. Many GPs would have happily worked but without childcare and administrative support it is practically impossible for the majority.\n\nGPs are once again shouldering criticism for actions from our government, which has effectively been on recess since the start of July. Did our new government need to close parliament for a full two weeks?\n\nAll of the public sector suffered throughout Covid, yet teachers are not being press-ganged into working on Monday to address the educational backlog. The constant denigration of general practice has consequences and needs to stop.\n<b>Dr Elizabeth Toberty<\/b>\nGP lead, Doctors\u2019 Association UK<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On September 15, 2022, The Times published a piece titled &#8220;The Times view on the Queen\u2019s funeral and the NHS: Cancel Culture&#8221;, which claimed, &#8220;The&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dauk-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041","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=1041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}