{"id":1059,"date":"2022-10-17T07:50:55","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T06:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/politicians-who-blame-staff-for-nhs-crisis-should-reconsider-their-viewpoint-dauk-co-chair-dr-ellen-welch\/"},"modified":"2022-10-17T07:50:55","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T06:50:55","slug":"politicians-who-blame-staff-for-nhs-crisis-should-reconsider-their-viewpoint-dauk-co-chair-dr-ellen-welch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/politicians-who-blame-staff-for-nhs-crisis-should-reconsider-their-viewpoint-dauk-co-chair-dr-ellen-welch\/","title":{"rendered":"Politicians who blame staff for NHS crisis should reconsider their viewpoint: DAUK co-chair Dr Ellen Welch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr Ellen Welch, Co-chair of DAUK, has commented on the Scottish Health Secretary&#8217;s comments on the NHS staff strike. \n\n&#8220;Humza Yousaf told Royal College of Nursing members <a href=\"https:\/\/uk.finance.yahoo.com\/news\/humza-yousaf-branded-shameful-telling-171609208.html\">\u201clet\u2019s not patronise each other\u201d<\/a> as he spoke with some, currently voting on strike action over pay, protesting outside the SNP conference in Aberdeen.&#8221;\n\nDAUK said NHS staff were struggling across the board with co-chair Dr Ellen Welch adding: \u201cPoliticians who single out NHS staff \u2018to blame&#8217; for this should seriously reconsider their viewpoint and start focusing on the actual reasons for the current climate \u2013 chronic underfunding of services, substandard pay, working conditions and the knock-on effects of a pandemic.\u201d\n\nRead the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sundaypost.com\/fp\/doctors-accuse-visiting-minister-of-dodging-ae\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Ellen Welch, Co-chair of DAUK, has commented on the Scottish Health Secretary&#8217;s comments on the NHS staff strike. &#8220;Humza Yousaf told Royal College of&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-1059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dauk-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059","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=1059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}