{"id":1357,"date":"2025-04-02T18:24:19","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T17:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/nhs-public-satisfaction\/"},"modified":"2025-04-02T18:24:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T17:24:19","slug":"nhs-public-satisfaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/nhs-public-satisfaction\/","title":{"rendered":"Investment needed to restore public satisfaction in the NHS &#8211; blog"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DAUK\u2019s vice chair Dr Ellen Welch has blogged about public satisfaction with the NHS on a national news website.\r\n\r\nDr Welch, a GP in Cumbria, was responding to the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/natcen.ac.uk\/publications\/public-attitudes-nhs-and-social-care\">British Social Attitudes survey.<\/a>\r\n\r\nThe survey explores public satisfaction with the NHS and social care.\r\n\r\nIt found that 21 per cent of people were satisfied in the way the NHS runs. Almost three in five (59 per cent) said they were \u2018very\u2019 or \u2018quite\u2019 dissatisfied.\r\n\r\nWriting for the LBC website, Dr Welch said she hears people\u2019s frustrations on a daily basis as a GP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">NHS investment<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Describing the NHS as the country\u2019s \u2018jewel in the crown\u2019, Dr Welch highlighted the lack of investment in the service, and in primary care in particular, as being an issue behind public dissatisfaction.\r\n\r\nShe wrote: \u201c\u2026 we can\u2019t have a sparkling jewel in our crown if the tiara we are wearing comes from Poundland.\u201d\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lbc.co.uk\/opinion\/views\/doctor-nhs-needs-more-than-belief-it-needs-investment-opinion\/\">Read Dr Welch\u2019s blog on LBC.co.uk<\/a>.\r\n\r\nMeanwhile, Dr Steve Taylor, DAUK\u2019s GP spokesperson, has been speaking in the media about requirements for ICBs to set up \u2018interface groups\u2019 to oversee the expansion of advice and guidance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Primary care<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking to GPonline, Dr Taylor said the groups were a welcome move and strong primary care representation was needed.\r\n\r\nHe said: \u201cIt&#8217;s important to have a strong GP voice in those groups, otherwise they could just create downward pressure on GPs not to refer.\r\n\r\n\u201cIt needs to be equal, with GP representation from people who are working within the system currently and who have the ear of local GPs to state clearly to the hospital trust what the problems are.\u201d\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gponline.com\/icb-interface-groups-oversee-expansion-advice-guidance\/article\/1912446\">Read the GPonline article in full<\/a>.\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 vice chair Dr Ellen Welch has blogged about public satisfaction with the NHS on a national news website. Dr Welch, a GP in Cumbria,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,58],"tags":[61,669,132,624],"class_list":["post-1357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dauk-news","category-the-nhs","tag-general-practice","tag-gp-funding","tag-nhs","tag-nhs-funding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357","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=1357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}