{"id":748,"date":"2021-01-27T17:59:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T17:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/dauks-dr-samantha-batt-rawden-spoke-to-good-morning-britain-about-abuse-received-by-nhs-staff-during-the-covid-19-crisis\/"},"modified":"2021-01-27T17:59:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T17:59:00","slug":"dauks-dr-samantha-batt-rawden-spoke-to-good-morning-britain-about-abuse-received-by-nhs-staff-during-the-covid-19-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/dauks-dr-samantha-batt-rawden-spoke-to-good-morning-britain-about-abuse-received-by-nhs-staff-during-the-covid-19-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"DAUK&#8217;s Dr Samantha Batt-Rawden spoke to Good Morning Britain about abuse received by NHS staff during the Covid-19 crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr Samantha Batt-Rawden, president of the Doctors&#8217; Association UK, spoke to Good Morning Britain about abuse that many members of the NHS have endured during this pandemic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She explained that: &#8220;I have had abuse on social media, I am lucky, unlike my colleagues, this has not happened in person. But this is a small but vocal minority, and we so appreciate the vast majority of the public who support us and those staying at home.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dr Samantha Batt-Rawden talks to Good Morning Britain\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KPivawXMP0w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She went on to speak about the video which recently emerged of members of the public obstructing patient care based on misinformation, adding that &#8220;They put themselves at risk. They put the staff at risk. And ultimately, what we really care about as doctors; they put the patients at risk.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dr Sammy Batt-Rawden This Morning 28.1.21\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UfGaulgoi-E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In response to a senior Tory MP saying that figures are being manipulated to exaggerate the scale of Coronavirus, Dr Samantha Batt-Rawden  spoke about her dismay, and challenged the MP to volunteer in her local ITU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;Volunteer at my ITU&quot; challenges Dr Samantha Batt-Rawden.\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SGmx6Y4i9eo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Samantha Batt-Rawden, president of the Doctors&#8217; Association UK, spoke to Good Morning Britain about abuse that many members of the NHS have endured during this pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,29,58],"tags":[44,38,435,106,39,54,364,42,312],"class_list":["post-748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dauk-news","category-protect-the-frontline","category-the-nhs","tag-covid-19","tag-dauk","tag-dauk-news","tag-doctors-association","tag-doctors-association-uk","tag-dr-samantha-batt-rawden","tag-good-morning-britain","tag-the-doctors-association-uk","tag-tv-covid-19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748","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=748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}