{"id":1396,"date":"2025-06-20T16:25:20","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T15:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/gps-trained-by-gps\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T16:25:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T15:25:20","slug":"gps-trained-by-gps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/gps-trained-by-gps\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;No substitute for GPs training GPs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DAUK\u2019s Dr Steve Taylor says its \u2018vital that GPs are trained by GPs\u2019.\r\n\r\nDr Taylor, GP spokesperson for the Doctors\u2019 Association UK (DAUK) said there was \u2018no substitute\u2019 for GP trainers in general practice.\r\n\r\nHis comments come as the BMA\u2019s GP registrars committee said it was increasingly seeing non-GPs appointed directors and supervisors of training programmes.\r\n\r\nSpeaking to Pulse, Dr Taylor said: \u201cIt is vital that GPs are trained by GPs. There is no substitute for this.\r\n\r\n\u201cAs a GP trainer, with decades of experience, I can\u2019t see how this can be done without GPs.\r\n\r\n\u201cIt is vitally important that training is safeguarded, that GPs are reimbursed appropriately and that priority is given to training the next generation of GPs.\u201d\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pulsetoday.co.uk\/news\/education-and-training\/bma-increasingly-seeing-non-gps-appointed-as-training-programme-supervisors\/\">Read the article in full<\/a>.\r\n\r\nSupport our work by <a href=\"https:\/\/dauk.org\/membership\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/dauk.org\/membership\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1731415023791000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1NdNBfmx47vYt9SkxK1ICn\">becoming a member<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/support-the-work-of-the-doctors-association-uk-dauk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/support-the-work-of-the-doctors-association-uk-dauk&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1731415023791000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1brWX4FquA7UtVB8OikJxQ\">donating to our Go Fund Me<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAUK\u2019s Dr Steve Taylor says its \u2018vital that GPs are trained by GPs\u2019. Dr Taylor, GP spokesperson for the Doctors\u2019 Association UK (DAUK) said there&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[23,390,63],"class_list":["post-1396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-practice","tag-gp-crisis","tag-gp-training","tag-gps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396","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=1396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}