Tag: Social Care

Policy statement on a National Care Service.

Post author By docjon1415
Post date October 4, 2020

Doctors in Unite believe that the current model for social care is not working and that this has been brought into sharp focus during the COVID 19 Pandemic. Care homes bore a huge burden of deaths during the first wave, for many reasons, but not least due to the fragmentation that privatisation has imposed on […]

Tags care homes, care workers, care-at-home, dignity, domicillary care, funding, National Care Service, NHS privatisation, personal budets, Social Care, staffing

Action & Campaigns COVID-19 Government Guidelines Letters

Open letter to the Prime Minister about the UK’s Covid-19 strategy from NHS and Social Care workers

Post author By rachelhallamy
Post date June 21, 2020

Open letter for anyone working in Health and Social care to sign and distribute. Sign here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfdk4q_YaJnNrMAGtaz9W32WCYLyWnE1rvLPFR3Y376tydRZg/viewform Dear Prime Minister, We are writing to ask you urgently clarify our Covid-19 strategy. Herd immunity was abandoned early on as it became clear hundreds of thousands would die. We entered lockdown in order to “flatten the curve” […]

Tags avoidable deaths, greed, herd immunity, nhs, policy failure, public health, Social Care, staffing, underfunded

DNACPR Government Policy

Blanket DNACPRs are not the solution for panicked healthcare rationing

Post author By Dr Tom Riddington
Post date May 12, 2020

The rising death rate from COVID-19 and the pressure of the pandemic on a weakened NHS have caused warranted anxiety. There were reports from Italy of rationing, when life saving equipment was simply unavailable for some sick patients, and difficult triage decisions had to be made by doctors. Many deaths in the UK are occurring […]

Tags avoidable deaths, care homes, critical care, DNACPR, doctors, healthcare rationing, hospital, Social Care

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Matt Hancock offered to auction his football shirt for the NHS – we need proper funding, not charity gimmicks

Post author By Dr Tom Riddington
Post date May 10, 2020

Doctors in Unite would like to remind the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care that the NHS is not a charity but a government funded health service, set up in 1948 with the specific intention to remove health care from the precarious state of reliance on income or beneficence. Matt Hancock has his […]

Tags charity, funding, nhs, Social Care, underfunding

COVID-19 Government Policy Hospitals and IPC Local Authority Social Care

The government can’t hide behind grateful applause: they must now fund the NHS properly

Post author By Dr Tom Riddington
Post date April 15, 2020

The solidarity expressed through weekly applause for the NHS, carers and key workers has been truly inspiring, and a great source of support for all staff. But we need those in power to do more than just clap for us. The NHS and local authorities have been starved of resources for the last ten years. […]

Tags austerity, cuts, funding, nhs, Social Care

COVID-19 DiU and Unite Government Guidelines H&S at work

Medical ethics during the coronavirus pandemic

Post author By Dr Tom Riddington
Post date April 7, 2020

Treatment without prejudice We believe that all people are of equal value. Whether old or young, rich or poor, disabled or not disabled, we all share a common humanity. This was true before the coronavirus pandemic, and it remains true today. Coronavirus is affecting different people in different ways. Many have a mild illness, but […]

Tags coronavirus, COVID-19, decision making, immunity, medical ethics, prejudice, rationing, SARS-CoV-2, Social Care