The Doctors\u2019 Association UK (DAUK) has criticised the minister of state for care for urging patients to \u2018take action\u2019 against GP practices that do not meet new contractual requirements for online access.\r\n\r\nUnder the new rules, GP practices must keep online systems open for routine patient requests between 8am and 6.30pm.\r\n\r\nThe systems must stay open regardless of workload or staffing levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In a now-deleted post on X, Stephen Kinnock MP encouraged patients to take action against practices not meeting these obligations.\r\n\r\nDr Steve Taylor, DAUK GP co-lead, responded in an interview with Pulse.\r\n\r\nHe said: \u201cStephen Kinnock has been told repeatedly that online access without safeguards for patients and increased GP capacity is a problem.\u201d\r\n\r\nDr Taylor said added: \u201cGPs are not being luddites or trying to obstruct innovation, they have repeatedly increased capacity, but there are limits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2018Raising expectations without increasing capacity is a folly, worse it\u2019s lying to patients and pretending that they are on the side of patients.\r\n\r\n\u201cHopefully people will see through the soundbites. But sadly GPs will be blamed, held responsible, some will leave, others will breach their contracts.\u201d\r\n\r\nRead the article in full<\/a>.\r\n\r\nDAUK committee members are all volunteers and speak to the media about issues facing frontline doctors in their own time. Please support our work by joining DAUK<\/a> or donating to our GoFundMe<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Doctors\u2019 Association UK (DAUK) has criticised the minister of state for care for urging patients to \u2018take action\u2019 against GP practices that do not…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[557,22,23],"class_list":["post-1440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dauk-news","tag-dauk-gp","tag-dr-steve-taylor","tag-gp-crisis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440","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=1440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}