{"id":419,"date":"2018-10-08T11:30:19","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T10:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/gpfrontlinercgpdauk\/"},"modified":"2018-10-08T11:30:19","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T10:30:19","slug":"gpfrontlinercgpdauk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/gpfrontlinercgpdauk\/","title":{"rendered":"GP Frontline: a profile on DAUK"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Coverage in the RCGP\u2019s magazine GP Frontline:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAdrian has recently been appointed as the media spokesperson for a fledging but already high-profile political lobbying group, The Doctors\u2019 Association, providing the virtual organisation with a GP voice on issues such as Brexit, and the recent Bawa-Garba case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019re an Independent, non-profit, non-partisan political lobbying group for doctors\u201d . Adrian explains, \u201cit was apparent that there was a desire for doctors to become more involved in political campaigning. The foundation of campaign groups nowadays are almost always on the internet and social media, it\u2019s where we come together and have our dialogue. We don\u2019t have a building or an office, we don\u2019t have a pedigree of forefathers, we\u2019ve started this on our own. We\u2019re a small group based all over the country and conversations and planning are online.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was Adrian\u2019s outspoken comments on Twitter in support of doctors and nurses at Alder Hey Children\u2019s Hospital (following a high-profile High Court ruling in April) that brought him to the attention of DAUK founder Dr Sammy Batt-Rawden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe Alder Hey staff were coming under huge criticism but I agreed with the messages coming out of the hospital. Unbeknownst to me, DAUK we\u2019re saying similar things.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The case of trainee paediatrician Dr Hadiza Bawa-Garba has given The Doctors\u2019 Association a major platform and Adrian notes \u2018our growth has been in parallel with the high profile of the case\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201dWe want to move towards a \u2018learn not blame\u2019  culture in the NHS, with complete openness and transparency, so that when mistakes happen, tragic as they may be, we acknowledge all the different factors that contibruted to that mistake, and minimise the opportunity for those mistakes to happen again\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another big issue for DAUK is Brexit. \u201cThe vast majority of NHS workers I\u2019m aware of, in the real world and online, feel that retaining our membership to the EU is the best things for the NHS\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the full article below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/15157EEA-FBE5-4077-B2F0-E75459144DD1.jpg\" alt=\"15157EEA-FBE5-4077-B2F0-E75459144DD1.JPG\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A profile of DAUK and our newest committee member in the RCGP magazine, GP Front line: \u201ca fledging but already high-profile political lobbying group, The Doctors\u2019 Association, providing the virtual organisation with a GP voice on issues such as Brexit, and the recent Bawa-Garba case.\u00a0\u201c\u201cWe\u2019re an Independent, non-profit, non-partisan political lobbying group for doctors\u201d\u00a0. Adrian explains, \u201cit was apparent that there was a desire for doctors to become more involved in political campaigning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[78,79,80,81,38,62,82,83,49,33,84],"class_list":["post-419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-practice","tag-alder-hey","tag-alfie-evans","tag-bawa-garba","tag-brexit","tag-dauk","tag-gp","tag-gp-frontline","tag-hadiza-bawa-garba","tag-learn-not-blame","tag-press","tag-rcgp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419","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=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}