{"id":1163,"date":"2023-03-05T10:58:59","date_gmt":"2023-03-05T10:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/dauk-has-called-on-all-universities-in-england-to-cancel-placements-scheduled-for-strike-days-over-concerns-for-patient-and-staff-safety-reports-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2023-03-05T10:58:59","modified_gmt":"2023-03-05T10:58:59","slug":"dauk-has-called-on-all-universities-in-england-to-cancel-placements-scheduled-for-strike-days-over-concerns-for-patient-and-staff-safety-reports-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/dauk-has-called-on-all-universities-in-england-to-cancel-placements-scheduled-for-strike-days-over-concerns-for-patient-and-staff-safety-reports-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"DAUK has called on all universities in England to cancel placements scheduled for strike days over concerns for patient and staff safety, reports The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The Doctors\u2019 Association UK (DAUK) has called on all universities in England to cancel placements scheduled for strike days over concerns for patient and staff safety&#8221;, reports The Guardian. \n\nIt said there was a \u201chigh\u201d risk of students being asked to \u201cact up\u201d and cover junior doctors\u2019 duties in their absence without the professional security to do so.\n\n\u201cInstructing students to not fill these gaps is unrealistic and does not take into account the power dynamic between students and clinicians,\u201d DAUK wrote in a recent letter to the deans of medical schools.\n\n\u201cFurther to this, students lack the professional indemnity to carry out such roles and would be putting themselves at risk doing so. To prevent these issues arising, medical students should not be expected to attend clinical placement during strike action.\u201d\n\nRead full story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2023\/mar\/03\/medical-students-urged-to-fill-gaps-when-junior-doctors-strike-in-england\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Doctors\u2019 Association UK (DAUK) has called on all universities in England to cancel placements scheduled for strike days over concerns for patient and staff&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-1163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dauk-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163","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=1163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}