{"id":380,"date":"2026-01-26T11:09:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T11:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/domestic-abuse-in-nhs-workers-highlighted-in-powerful-article\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T11:38:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T11:38:48","slug":"domestic-abuse-in-nhs-workers-highlighted-in-powerful-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/domestic-abuse-in-nhs-workers-highlighted-in-powerful-article\/","title":{"rendered":"Domestic abuse in NHS workers highlighted in powerful article"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The work of leading members of DAUK in raising awareness about domestic abuse among healthcare professionals is highlighted in a powerful feature in the BMJ.<\/p>\n<p>The article is titled Why doctors are uniquely vulnerable to domestic abuse.<\/p>\n<p>It features Dr Ellen Welch, DAUK co-chair, and Dr Sarah Jacques, DAUK GP co-lead, and their work highlighting the \u2018silent pandemic\u2019 facing NHS workers.<\/p>\n<h3>NHS Domestic Abuse Awareness Day<\/h3>\n<p>Dr Welch and Dr Jacques are also campaigns co-leads for the Medical Women\u2019s Federation. They are co-ordinators of NHS Domestic Abuse Awareness Day, which took place for the first time in December.<\/p>\n<p>The article includes the real-life stories of NHS workers who have experienced abusive relationships. It also highlights the research and work being done on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Read the article in full in this week\u2019s BMJ or on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/391\/bmj.r2575\">the BMJ website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Find out more about <a href=\"https:\/\/dauk.org\/campaigns\/nhs-domestic-abuse-awareness-day\/\">NHS Domestic Abuse Awareness Day<\/a><\/p>\n<p>DAUK committee members are all volunteers. They campaign and speak in the media about issues facing doctors in their own time. Please support our work by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dauk.org\/membership\/\">joining DAUK<\/a>\u00a0or donating to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/support-the-work-of-the-doctors-association-uk-dauk\">our GoFundMe<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The work of leading members of DAUK in raising awareness about domestic abuse among healthcare professionals is highlighted in a powerful feature in the BMJ.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":1580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[722,1],"tags":[724,725,324,656,726],"class_list":["post-380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-domestic-abuse","category-uncategorised","tag-domestic-abuse","tag-domestic-abuse-and-doctors","tag-dr-ellen-welch","tag-dr-sarah-jacques","tag-nhs-domestic-abuse-awareness-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1679,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions\/1679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}