{"id":1074,"date":"2022-11-18T08:54:48","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T08:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/matt-hancock-is-looking-for-your-forgiveness-dont-give-it-to-him-says-co-chair-dr-ellen-welch-in-metro-uk\/"},"modified":"2022-11-18T08:54:48","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T08:54:48","slug":"matt-hancock-is-looking-for-your-forgiveness-dont-give-it-to-him-says-co-chair-dr-ellen-welch-in-metro-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/matt-hancock-is-looking-for-your-forgiveness-dont-give-it-to-him-says-co-chair-dr-ellen-welch-in-metro-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Hancock is looking for your forgiveness \u2013 don\u2019t give it to him, says Co-Chair Dr Ellen Welch in Metro UK"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2022\/04\/26\/part-time-gps-are-not-to-blame-for-the-downfall-of-the-nhs-right-now-16499208\/\">&#8220;As a GP, and co-chair of The Doctors\u2019 Association UK<\/a>, a non-profit lobbying group run by volunteer doctors, I\u2019m only too aware of Hancock\u2019s role in the UK\u2019s pandemic response. And what\u2019s more \u2013 he has not yet been held accountable,&#8221; Says Dr Ellen Welch in Metro UK. \n\nA&#8221;s the Covid Inquiry slowly drags on in the background, Hancock has opted to take centre stage and rebrand himself as an affable minor celebrity, a smokescreen over his current legacy of a broken NHS.&#8221;\n\n&#8220;I was pregnant and working from home in 2020, juggling a toddler, while speaking to hundreds of people all with the same fears. \n\nThis disease was unknown, and the guidelines for managing it changed on an almost daily basis. \n\nSome of the most heart wrenching calls were from patients calling with often mild symptoms of Covid, who spoke of saying goodbye to household contact who had been taken to hospital unable to breathe \u2013 uncertain if they would see their loved ones again. &#8221;\n\nRead the full opinion piece <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2022\/11\/17\/matt-hancock-is-looking-for-your-forgiveness-dont-give-it-to-him-17779509\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;As a GP, and co-chair of The Doctors\u2019 Association UK, a non-profit lobbying group run by volunteer doctors, I\u2019m only too aware of Hancock\u2019s role&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dauk-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074","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=1074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}