Fighting for the NHS

Author: docjon1415

Speech by Dr Jackie Applebee, Chair of Doctors in Unite to the BMA Annual Representative Meeting, 15 September 2020

Post author By docjon1415
Post date September 17, 2020

Dr Applebee proposed the motion by TOWER HAMLETS DIVISION of the BMA: That this meeting, in response to COVID 19, demands that government: i) ensure that workers are not under pressure to attend work either for financial or workforce reasons while they are unwell or self-isolating and at risk of inadvertently passing on the disease; […]

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COVID-19 update 7 September 2020 – still stumbling along

Post author By docjon1415
Post date September 10, 2020

A review of where the UK is in its response to the Covid-19 pandemic 1. Policy failure Richard Horton, editor of the prestigious medical journal ‘The Lancet’, described the management of COVID-19 as the “greatest science policy failure for a generation” in his book on the pandemic. Currently the numbers of newly diagnosed patients are […]

Tags anti-science, avoidable deaths, coronavirus, corruption, COVID-19, government, NHS winter pressure, policy failure, Privatisation, SARS-CoV-2, staffing, underfunding