{"id":445,"date":"2020-02-13T01:01:22","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T01:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/2020-2-13-dauk-daily-mirrorbullieddoctorsonthebrink\/"},"modified":"2020-02-13T01:01:22","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T01:01:22","slug":"2020-2-13-dauk-daily-mirrorbullieddoctorsonthebrink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/2020-2-13-dauk-daily-mirrorbullieddoctorsonthebrink\/","title":{"rendered":"DAUK front page of the Daily Mirror: harrowing stories of burned out NHS doctors bullied and broken"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Dedicated to caring for the sick and vulnerable, junior \u00addoctors should expect to be \u00adsupported and valued as they carry out their vital work. But hundreds have revealed they are subjected to bullying and harassment at overstretched hospitals that have been plunged into a staffing crisis by a decade of savage Tory health cuts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The investigation has uncovered harrowing stories of young medics being denied drinking water during gruelling shifts, working for 15 hours on their feet non-stop and of uncaring managers tearing into them for breaking down in tears over the deaths of patients. One was even accused of \u201cstealing\u201d surgical scrubs she took to wear after suffering a miscarriage at work. The distraught woman finished her shift wearing blood-soaked trousers, instead of going home to rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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DAUK\u2019s report made the front page of the Daily Mirror<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Doctors are now quitting in their droves, leaving those left \u00adstruggling to cope with a growing \u00adworkload. Our probe reveals the reality of working for an NHS which has been subject to a record funding squeeze and is 8,000 medics short.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Health chiefs vowed to \u00adinvestigate the Mirror\u2019s evidence from 602 \u00adtestimonials submitted to grass roots lobbying group The Doctors Association UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Heartbreaking examples of being denied access to water after the tragic loss of a patient reveals how \u00adheartless and inhumane conditions can be.<\/p>\nDr Rinesh Parmar, DAUK Chair the Daily Mirror<\/cite>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Chairman Dr Rinesh Parmar said: \u201cThese heartbreaking stories from across the country show the extent of bullying and harassment that frontline doctors face whilst working to care for patients. Heartbreaking examples of being denied access to water after the tragic loss of a patient reveals how \u00adheartless and inhumane conditions can be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is easy to see why the goodwill that the NHS relies upon has truly run dry. Doctors have spoken in their droves of being denied access to drinks, being accused of theft for eating a biscuit even though they\u2019ve forgone breaks and this may be the only thing they eat or drink all day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“A learned helplessness cannot be allowed to develop, it is vital that our doctors, the very backbone of our NHS are respected and looked after so that they\u2019re at their very best when caring for patients.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dr Natalie Ashburner, The Doctors\u2019 Association UK\u2019s Wellbeing Lead and a psychiatry doctor spoke to Daily Mirror about her experiences<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Doctors Association UK wellbeing lead Dr Natalie Ashburner added: \u201cIt is extremely disappointing that doctors are reporting a lack of access to basic resources such as water at hospitals. \u201cThe effect of these \u00adinconsiderate, short-sighted decisions on the physical and mental wellbeing of staff who work long, anti-social shifts under tremendous stress in a climate of unprecedented demand for already stretched resources should not be underestimated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The NHS is already haemorrhaging doctors<\/p>\nDr Natalie Ashburner, DAUK Wellbeing Lead the Daily Mirror<\/cite>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

“The NHS is already haemorrhaging doctors. Trusts must urgently take measures to make the mental and \u00adphysical wellbeing of doctors a priority, creating a compassionate culture and remembering doctors are human too.\u201d A recent poll found almost a third of doctors may be suffering from burnout, stress and \u201ccompassion fatigue\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The NHS has some of the fewest doctors in proportion to the population compared to other developed nations. NHS funding increases have been at a record low of 1%, compared to a 4% historical average.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Department of Health and Social Care said of our investigation: \u201cThese accounts are deeply distressing. This type of behaviour has no place in our NHS and nobody should have to face bullying or harassment in the workplace. \u201cWe take these kinds of reports very \u00adseriously and we\u2019re committed to making the NHS a better place to work.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Excerpt from the Daily Mirror article by Martin Bagot, read the full article here: https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/uk-news\/harrowing-stories-burned-out-nhs-21487129<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dedicated to caring for the sick and vulnerable, junior \u00addoctors should expect to be \u00adsupported and valued as they carry out their vital work. But hundreds have revealed they are subjected to bullying and harassment at overstretched hospitals that have been plunged into a staffing crisis. The Doctors\u2019 Association UK has collated stories from over 600 doctors. The shocking report made the front page of the Daily Mirror. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[110,138,45,38,39,46,47,139,122,129,42],"class_list":["post-445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compassionate-culture","tag-compassionateculture","tag-nhsmetoo","tag-daily-mirror","tag-dauk","tag-doctors-association-uk","tag-dr-rinesh-parmar","tag-featured-press","tag-harassment","tag-harrassment","tag-natalie-ashburner","tag-the-doctors-association-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445","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=445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}