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Viewpoint: Why mandatory advice and guidance risks a patient safety fiasco

Viewpoint: Why mandatory advice and guidance risks a patient safety fiasco

Plans to make advice and guidance a part of core general practice work from April as the current £80m DES is …

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Viewpoint: Online access policy must be the government's next U-turn

Viewpoint: Online access policy must be the government's next U-turn

A recent history of U-turns suggests the current government takes time to realise when it has blundered - but…

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Viewpoint: AI won't bring back the family doctor - hiring more GPs will

Viewpoint: AI won't bring back the family doctor - hiring more GPs will

The 10-year health plan is looking to AI and tech to solve the problems facing the NHS, when the answer lies …

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Viewpoint: Is Stockholm syndrome the real reason GPs won't give up the partnership model?

Viewpoint: Is Stockholm syndrome the real reason GPs won't give up the partnership model?

The GP partnership model is a sacred cow that the profession is unwilling to relinquish, but a system that le…

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The UK isn't a nice place to grow old. But we can begin to change this by taking dementia serious...

The UK isn't a nice place to grow old. But we can begin to change this by taking dementia serious...

It’s estimated that the health and economic costs are £23 billion a year in the UK, but only 2.5 per cent of …

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World Suicide Prevention Day: what the government could do to help

World Suicide Prevention Day: what the government could do to help

Suicide rates are on the rise, due to the recession and an increasingly divided society – which means it is a…

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Letter to Wes Streeting from DiU GPCE representative

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By Tom Riddington
| The Doctors in Unite podcast
20th September 2025 Dear Secretary of State, I was surprised and saddened to hear you address GPs as “laggards” at the BMA SRM, who are rightly worried by the imposition of unlimited online consultations from October 1st without appropriate safeguards. Doctors in Unite members are physicians, including GPs, who are choosing to join a Labour affiliated trade union. We strongly support any Government effort to return the NHS to its founding principles.
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A strong social care system creates a strong economy

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By Tom Riddington
| The Doctors in Unite podcast
Doctors in Unite member Dr Brian Fisher has written two pieces for Left Foot Forward, where he argues the economic case for creating a robust social care service. Brian has worked as a GP in southeast London for over 40 years, and was awarded an MBE for his work in community development in 2007. Brian  makes the positive case that fixing social care can help fix the economy.
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Big tech is at the heart of the NHS 10 Year Plan

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By Tom Riddington
| The Doctors in Unite podcast
The capture of our public infrastructure by private behemoths By Martin Blanchard, August 2025 The UK government’s ‘Cloud First’ policy is resulting in the use of US big tech (including Microsoft, Google, AWS, Apple and Oracle) digital infrastructure aka ‘public cloud’ across public services including the NHS, where its use has been made central to any successful attempt at improved productivity in the .
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