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Speech by Dr Jon Dale at Sheffield International Workers Memorial Day event 28 April 2022.

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International Workers Memorial Day Statement from Unite General Secretary Sharon Graham

This statement was read out at the Doctors in Unite IWMD event on 28 April 2022 Let’s be clear what today is really about. Working people continue to die simply as a result of doing their jobs. Many workers paid the price for the pandemic with their lives and with their health. Key workers sent […]

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Speech by John Puntis at Sheffield IWMD event 28 April 2022

The theme for this year’s International Workers Memorial Day is ‘occupational health and safety is a human right’ – an issue highlighted by the covid pandemic when it was clear that many employers (and indeed the Health and Safety Executive itself) failed in their duty to protect workers. Covid 19 has caused the deaths of […]

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International Workers Memorial Day

Doctors in Unite mark events in Leeds, Sheffield and London on 28 April 2022 Among the many events held across the country and internationally to mark IWMD, DiU members were involved in events in Sheffield, Leeds and London.  The theme of this year’s commemoration is safety at work, i.e. that a safe workplace is a […]

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Doctors in Unite 2022 AGM

We held our AGM on 6th February 2022. Our Chair Jackie Applebee, referenced the amount of work that had taken place over the last year in weekly meetings responding to Covid issues. This had resulted in a number of position statements, campaigning, support and information sharing. Going forward meetings will be fortnightly: a Branch Meeting […]

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DOCTORS IN UNITE SUBMISSION ON THE FUTURE OF GENERAL PRACTICE TO THE PARLIAMENTARY HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE COMMITTEE

The Health and Social Care Committee has launched an enquiry into the future of general practice, “examining the key challenges facing general practice over the next five years as well as the biggest current and ongoing barriers to access to general practice.” Further information can be found here. This is the submission Doctors in Unite […]

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Urgent trade union action needed to stop airborne transmission  of Covid-19 in the workplace.

A model resolution for trade union branches Detailed information is here PDF copy for downloading and printing here:

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Dr Brian Colston

Pioneering GP who helped transform primary health care in Britain My friend Brian Colston, who has died aged 99, was one of a generation of pioneering GPs who helped to transform primary health care in Britain. Over more than 40 years he developed a range of innovative services of national significance in Birmingham’s inner city. […]

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Infection Control guidance and airborne transmission

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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The place of vaccines and airborne controls in the hierarchy of controls for Covid-19