@DAUK_GP

We are the Doctors’ Association UK GP committee. Giving a voice to frontline GPs @TheDA_UK🐹

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DAUK is encouraging patients to back its campaign to restore general practice to the heart of the NHS @drstevetaylor New Year message emphasising the campaign – Your GP, here for you – is about partnership between doctors & patients dauk.org/news-your-gp-here-f…
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Doctors’ Association UK@TheDA_UKOct 23
Replying to @TheDA_UK @djnicholl
Is Palantir a risk for the NHS? Hear insights from DAUK's @djnicholl at our recent conference. Watch the highlights now
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Doctors’ Association UK@TheDA_UKOct 22
"The tragedy is that he knew what was needed." @DrSpanielPaws and @DrSteveTaylor have challenged former health secretary Jeremy Hunt over his record on general practice ➡️ dauk.org/dauk-challenges-jer…

DAUK challenges Jeremy Hunt over GP comments

Doctors’ Association UK (DAUK) has challenged former health secretary Jeremy Hunt over his record on general practice after he questioned the Government’s failure to restore continuity of care in...

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Sir Jeremy Hunt MP
@Jeremy_HuntOct 21
It was a disastrous mistake in 2004 to scrap family doctors. I tried and failed to bring them back. Will this government do any better?
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Doctors’ Association UK@TheDA_UKOct 23
RCP fellows, your College must act. Defend the 2024 EGM mandate. Read and sign the DAUK letter dauk.org/rcp-letter/ Signing is separate from formal RCP feedback, due 2 November at 5pm.
DAUK collective appeal with abstract physicians. RCP fellows, your College must act. Defend the 2024 EGM mandate. dauk.org/rcp-letter.

ALT DAUK collective appeal with abstract physicians. RCP fellows, your College must act. Defend the 2024 EGM mandate. dauk.org/rcp-letter.

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Doctors’ Association UK@TheDA_UKOct 23
100+ MPs support the campaign to end the NHS data deal with Palantir. DAUK's @djnicholl urges: "Contact your MP to protect the future of the NHS."  dauk.org/public-and-politici…
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Dr Steve Taylor@DrSteveTaylorOct 20
As a GP practice we lost a third of Nursing home residents in the first wave due to the decisions made by leaders to discharge infected patients to homes It’s hugely concerning that this was done without mitigation of the risks #BREATHTAKING
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Dr Steve Taylor@DrSteveTaylorOct 21
Replying to @Jeremy_Hunt
2004 wasn’t the time Family Doctors were scrapped 2010 seems to be the moment the decline started @Jeremy_Hunt you failed because you didn’t invest in GPs Funding was cut 2014-2024 by 20% per patient, training more but no funding to retain Then there was funding of ARRS 🤷🏻‍♂️
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Dr Steve Taylor@DrSteveTaylorOct 21
Unregulated expansion of PAs started in 2015 It took 10 years to finally get the Leng Review 15m after being published it is still not being followed, sadly there are some who are still pushing for undiagnosed (undifferentiated) patients to be seen first by PAs in GP practices0
Dr Steve Taylor@DrSteveTaylor27 Oct 2025
Physician Assistants were first muted as an idea an concept in the early 2010s as a way of alleviating the workforce shortage in General Practice, helping GPs deal with some of the more simple and mundane tasks to allow GPs more time for patients.  A 🧵 rcp.ac.uk/media/ffdai1fx/com…
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Dr Steve Taylor@DrSteveTaylorOct 21
Referrals to secondary care from GPs used to be treated as they were, requests for further support, investigations, and advice from one experienced colleague to another They have now, to the detriment of patients, been treated as merely optional This cannot continue
Dr Dave Triska
@dave_dltOct 20
New Substack 🗒️ Dodging Blows Referral was meant to be a dance between two clinicians. These days it feels more like a boxing match, with the exhausted GP's guard up, protecting their already battered body . Who wins when everyone is fighting? davetriska.substack.com/p/do…
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Dr Steve Taylor@DrSteveTaylorOct 21
2004 wasn’t the time Family Doctors were scrapped 2010 seems to be the moment the decline started @Jeremy_Hunt you failed because you didn’t invest in GPs Funding was cut 2014-2024 by 20% per patient, training more but no funding to retain Then there was funding of ARRS 🤷🏻‍♂️
Sir Jeremy Hunt MP
@Jeremy_HuntOct 21
It was a disastrous mistake in 2004 to scrap family doctors. I tried and failed to bring them back. Will this government do any better?
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Doctors’ Association UK@TheDA_UKOct 19
From the DAUK substack archive: The doctor, the patient and the algorithm by Alexandra Douglas 🔗 f.mtr.cool/xw44lkdjbk
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Doctors’ Association UK@TheDA_UKOct 18
Congratulations to Dr Milind Arolker, winner of DAUK's £150 membership profile prize draw! Thank you to everyone who entered. We're preparing another £150 draw, closing 18 November. Full entry details to follow. #DAUK
DAUK congratulates Dr Milind Arolker on winning the £150 membership profile draw and announces plans for another draw.

ALT DAUK congratulates Dr Milind Arolker on winning the £150 membership profile draw and announces plans for another draw.

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Doctors’ Association UK@TheDA_UKOct 15
The Threat of Workforce Substitution was the subject of a brilliant talk by @DrLKVaughan at our conference last weekend
Doctors’ Association UK@TheDA_UKOct 15
Our concerns over a draft national clinical protocol for physician associates (PAs) have been highlighted in @pulsetoday dauk.org/dauk-in-the-media-c…

DAUK in the media: concerns over draft PA protocol

Doctors’ Association UK’s (DAUK) concerns over a draft national clinical protocol for physician associates (PAs) have been highlighted in medical publication Pulse. It follows DAUK’s support for...

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Good Law Project
@GoodLawProjectOct 14
I lost my career after refusing to keep quiet about the risks that Palantir poses to our NHS goodlawproject.org/forced-ou…

Forced out of a job in the NHS for speaking out on Palantir

I lost my career after refusing to keep quiet about the risks that a US spy-tech company poses to our NHS

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Doctors’ Association UK@TheDA_UKOct 13
“If the aim is to improve the accuracy of GP lists, then let’s do that properly. Validate the lists, protect patients and protect general practice.” Sign our letter calling for an independent review of the accelerated removal of patients from GP lists docs.google.com/forms/u/3/d/…

Open letter to Dr Amanda Doyle OBE, NHSE national director for primary care and community services,...

GPs support accurate patient lists but accuracy must not come at the expense of patient safety or the stability of general practice. A patient who has not recently used the NHS is not a ‘ghost...

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Doctors.net.uk@Doctors_net_ukOct 13
Stop removing patients from practice lists until an independent review can assess the impact, the Doctors’ Association UK has urged NHS England. buff.ly/T4ulDCQ

Stop list GP cleansing until impact is independently reviewed, say doctors

Stop removing patients from practice lists until an independent review can assess the impact, the Doctors’ Association UK has urged NHS England.

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Doctors’ Association UK@TheDA_UKOct 9
We're urging people to sign an open letter calling on the Government and NHS England to halt the accelerated removal of patients from GP lists until its safety and impact have been independently reviewed. Read more and sign our letter dauk.org/doctors-and-patient…
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Dr Steve Taylor@DrSteveTaylorOct 9
Doctors’ Association UK (DAUK) is urging people to sign an open letter calling on the Government and NHS England to halt the accelerated removal of patients from GP lists until its safety and impact have been independently reviewed. dauk.org/doctors-and-patient…
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The BMA
@TheBMAOct 7
Share your experiences of PAs seeing undifferentiated patients by submitted a report to our portal: forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/…
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Dr Steve Taylor@DrSteveTaylorOct 5
NHS Productivity Lack of beds & infrastructure is the problem I have a standard kitchen in my house and can cook for 20. (Just) I ask another 2 people to cook with me but don’t increase the number of ovens or hobs. We get in each other’s way and can now only cook for 15🤷🏻‍♂️
𒊓𒅂𒁓𒐗𒐕𒐗 Steve the skeptic@sib313Sep 29
I'm still waiting to see much, if any, substantive commentary on the @HealthFdn report on NHS productivity. Anyone have any good reason why such an important issue is garnering so little attention?
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Doctors’ Association UK@TheDA_UKOct 5
From the DAUK substack archive: Why the GP partnership model still matters - and what we stand to lose by Sarah Jacques 🔗 f.mtr.cool/29105hk6l4
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Dr Steve Taylor@DrSteveTaylorOct 2
Sir Jim Mackey, speaking at the board meeting today, cited improved GP access as a reason for an increase in referrals for secondary care earlier this year. Survey evidence suggests people are finding it easier to make appointments. He needs to look at the data @YvetteCooperMP
Health Service Journal@HSJnewsOct 2
Revealed: NHSE plan to ‘grip’ GP performance ift.tt/cVYFtxm

Revealed: NHSE plan to ‘grip’ GP performance

NHS England intends to "improve operational grip" on GP performance and has warned it may lead to "contractual action".

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