The Pulse Today has reported on the latest GP bashing article published by the Daily Mail and the response by BMA to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
DAUK is pleased to see the BMA have stood up for GPs in this case. This is crucial because investigations have revealed that GPs did take a bashing in 2020 from the media<\/a>. DAUK has been at the forefront of fighting this negative media coverage of GPs. We have, in the past, written to IPSO complaining Mail Online’s false claims of GPs fuelling A&E waits.<\/a> Pulse Today reports that “The DAUK had raised a formal letter of complaint to<\/a> IPSO about the \u2018misleading\u2019 anti-GP coverage in June,<\/a> which garnered 2,395 signatures. “<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pulse Today’s report also mentions that in September, “IPSO had rejected an appeal lodged by the Doctors\u2019 Association UK (DAUK) over its decision<\/a> about another GP-bashing article published by Mail Online.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Pulse had previously revealed the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO) ruling that Mail Online <\/em>did not breach journalist code by publishing an article claiming that GPs have \u2018fuelled\u2019 a crisis in England\u2019s A&E departments.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n