{"id":1351,"date":"2025-03-21T09:00:58","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T09:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/gp-unemployment-crisis-highlighted\/"},"modified":"2025-03-21T09:00:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T09:00:58","slug":"gp-unemployment-crisis-highlighted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/gp-unemployment-crisis-highlighted\/","title":{"rendered":"DAUK highlights GP unemployment crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DAUK\u2019s Dr Steve Taylor highlighted the GP unemployment and underemployment crisis during a two-day conference for general practice.\r\n\r\nDr Taylor, our GP spokesperson, was part of a panel discussion at <a href=\"https:\/\/events.cogora.com\/pulselondon\/home\">Pulse 365 Live<\/a> in London titled <em>Are unemployed GPs collateral damage of the NHS big plans?<\/em>\r\n\r\nThe panel also included Jaimie Kaffash, Pulse editor-in-chief; Dr Samira Anane GP, deputy chair GP Committee in England; Professor Aruna Garcea, chair of NHS Confederation Primary Care Network and medical advisor for Networks and Partnerships; and Dr Richard Fieldhouse, chair and founder of National Association of Sessional GPs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Crazy situation<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr Taylor said: \u201cThe discussion was around how have we got to a crazy situation where GPs are unemployed and underemployed.\r\n\r\n\u201cGP practises have effectively had a cut in funding. It has meant they\u2019ve not had the money to employ GPs.\r\n\r\n\u201cThere was a conversation around ARRS roles, that they have become substitutions and not additional because of the ring-fencing of funding.\r\n\r\n&#8220;The discussion was well received.\u201d\r\n\r\nDr Taylor added: \u201cIt\u2019s important DAUK takes opportunities to share views we get from talking to our members and to GPs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">GP unemployment<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s a chance to give them a platform and to amplify their voice.\r\n\r\n\u201cWe&#8217;ve heard from a number of our members that they are struggling with employment, including members of our GP committee.\r\n\r\n\u201cIt\u2019s a chance to get the message out to a wider audience of GPs and GP leaders.\u201d\r\n\r\nPlease support our work by contributing to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/support-the-work-of-the-doctors-association-uk-dauk\">our crowd funder<\/a> or by <a href=\"https:\/\/dauk.org\/membership\/\">becoming a member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAUK\u2019s Dr Steve Taylor highlighted the GP unemployment and underemployment crisis during a two-day conference for general practice. Dr Taylor, our GP spokesperson, was part&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dauk-news","category-general-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351","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=1351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}