Guidelines are fundamentally flawed and putting health care workers and patients at serious risk UK infection control guidelines are not fit for purpose. IPC authorities are increasingly isolated in their view that Covid-19 is spread by droplets and not through the air, a position which is directly contradicted now by official government policy. What follows […]
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Resolution adopted by Doctors in Unite 12 Dec 2021 This branch believes that: Covid-19 is overwhelmingly transmitted by airborne spread – people breathe in the virus from the surrounding air. Airborne protections are therefore essential to stop transmission. Omicron, like all Covid-19 variants, is airborne. Airborne protection means providing clean air in the workplace and […]
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Link for Unite Health and Safety policy is HERE Link for detailed background information is HERE PDF version here to download and print leaflet
Employers and government continue to fail in their duty to protect workers, especially against the primary route of transmission of Covid-19, airborne spread. Trade unions should therefore adopt specific policy and act to protect their members from airborne spread as a matter of urgency. A detailed look at the issues and the evidence. CONTENTS Summary […]
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Two people in two rooms
after reading Tim Senior http://bjgp.org/content/66/652/579 We cannot meet in one room. Yours or mine. Telephone or video today. This is too important for text or e-mail. There may be talking. There may be listening. There will be silence. What will we see with our ears? Is there enough relationship? Understanding? Knowledge? Wisdom? or Skills, Competencies, […]
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The Alma Ata Declaration
In 1978 the WHO adopted the Alma Ata declaration, a seminal document which stated that economic and political policy are the major determinants of global health and wellbeing. It argued that inequality is unacceptable, and that people have the right and duty to participate in the planning and implementation of their health care. At the […]
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GP workload – the real picture
Written evidence opposing the Health and Care Bill, submitted by John Puntis co-chair of Keep Our NHS Public, a national campaigning organisation seeking to maintain a publicly funded and provided universal healthcare system across the UK. Executive Summary This Bill will be highly damaging to the NHS as a national health service based on social […]
At our meeting last weekend, Doctors in Unite passed the following resolution in solidarity with the staff at Florence House Medical Centre, and general practices across the country: “This branch is horrified at the brutal attack on staff at the Florence House Medical Practice in Openshaw on Friday 17th September 2021 Health workers across […]
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