{"id":1134,"date":"2023-01-20T18:43:05","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T18:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/for-the-nhs-to-continue-to-run-effectively-we-need-real-change-not-false-promises-writes-amy-attwater-in-metro\/"},"modified":"2023-01-20T18:43:05","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T18:43:05","slug":"for-the-nhs-to-continue-to-run-effectively-we-need-real-change-not-false-promises-writes-amy-attwater-in-metro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/for-the-nhs-to-continue-to-run-effectively-we-need-real-change-not-false-promises-writes-amy-attwater-in-metro\/","title":{"rendered":"For the NHS to continue to run effectively, we need real change, not false promises, writes Amy Attwater in Metro"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr Amy Attwater writes in the Metro about what it\u2019s like to work as an \u200b\u200bemergency medicine registrar in a hospital in the UK right now.\n\n&#8220;This is like nothing we have ever experienced before, even during <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/tag\/coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Covid-19,<\/a>&#8221; she writes, &#8220;Why aren\u2019t the <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/tag\/british-government\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Government<\/a> doing anything about the situation where we have GPs driving a dying patient to hospital themselves or surgeons apparently examining testicles in a cleaning cupboard? Is this what you want for your closest relatives?&#8221; \n\nBelieve me, we are doing our very best \u2013 GPs, hospital doctors, nurses and <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2022\/12\/13\/military-has-just-40-paramedics-who-could-work-at-the-nhs-17928883\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2022\/12\/13\/military-has-just-40-paramedics-who-could-work-at-the-nhs-17928883\/\">paramedics<\/a>. But without more resources and staff from the government, it is futile.\n\nThe NHS is on life support, and I\u2019m terrified we won\u2019t make it.\n\n<em>The Doctors\u2019 Association UK issued a letter to Rishi Sunak to urgently address the state of the NHS right now, which you can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dauk.org\/news\/2023\/01\/04\/the-doctors-association-uk-issues-an-open-letter-to-rishi-sunak-parlimentary-recess-needs-to-end-summon-mps-back-from-christmas-break-for-an-emergency-meeting-on-the-state-of-the-n\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">read on their website here<\/a>.&#8221;<\/em>\n\nRead the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2023\/01\/20\/the-nhs-is-on-life-support-and-im-terrified-we-wont-make-it-18117910\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Amy Attwater writes in the Metro about what it\u2019s like to work as an \u200b\u200bemergency medicine registrar in a hospital in the UK right&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-1134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dauk-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134","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=1134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}