Tag: contact tracing

Financial Security must be maintained during contact tracing

Post author By rachelhallamy
Post date June 12, 2020

Doctors in Unite believe that comprehensive, publicly coordinated and community based, ‘test, trace, isolate and support’ procedures are vital for control of the Covid 19 pandemic as lockdown is eased. As a means to eliminating Covid-19 from our communities, people must be supported to isolate once they are identified as potentially infectious. To this end […]

Tags contact tracing, COVID-19, financial protection, furlough, income, inequality, job security, self-isolation, Transmission, TTIS, Workplace COVID

COVID-19 Defend the NHS Government Guidelines Privatisation Staying safe Transmission TTIS

Tens of Thousands of Avoidable Deaths Due to The Government’s Callous Indifference to the effects of Covid 19

Post author By rachelhallamy
Post date June 7, 2020

June 1 2020 heralded the official start of the easing of the lockdown that has been in place since 23rd March to try to contain the spread of Covid 19. The current reality is that due to the Westminster Government’s repeatedly vague and confusing messaging, compounded by their unwavering support of the Prime Minister’s rule […]

Tags avoidable deaths, contact tracing, coronavirus, COVID-19, Cummings, incompetence, lockdown, pandemic, Privatisation, SERCO failure

COVID-19 Defend the NHS Government Guidelines Privatisation

Government ineptitude has undoubtedly led to many unnecessary deaths – they must be held to account

Post author By rachelhallamy
Post date April 28, 2020

Richard Horton, respected editor of the medical journal ‘the Lancet’, aptly summed up the current pandemic in the following words: “Coronavirus is the greatest global science policy failure in a generation. Austerity blunted the ambition and commitment of government to protect its people. The objective was to diminish the size and role of the state. […]

Tags avoidable deaths, contact tracing, coronavirus, COVID-19, incompetence, lockdown, pandemic, policy failure, Privatisation, SERCO failure

COVID-19 Hospitals and IPC Masks PPE Staying safe Testing Transmission TTIS

Statement on key worker testing and contact tracing

Post author By Dr Tom Riddington
Post date April 23, 2020

Since the start of the lockdown we have called for contact tracing and widespread testing as the only means to establish the true prevalence of COVID-19. This is what the World Health Organisation urged all countries to do from the very beginning. We welcome Matt Hancock’s announcement of testing for symptomatic key workers and their […]