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Peers Inquiry into Public Service Lessons from Coronavirus: Full Report

Post author By rachelhallamy
Post date June 28, 2020

Below is the Doctors in Unite repose to the Peers Inquiry which has asked for an open consultation from the public and professionals in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. We welcome the opportunity to feed into the Peers Inquiry into Public Service Lessons from Coronavirus. We are Doctors in Unite, the doctor’s branch of […]

Tags avoidable deaths, corruption, COVID-19, cronyism, government failure, planning failure, PPE failure, Privatisation, recklessness, self-isolation, testing failure, TTIS, underfunding

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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

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‘Isolate, trace and support’ is the only safe way out of lockdown

Post author By Dr Tom Riddington
Post date May 25, 2020

Doctors in Unite believe that comprehensive, publicly coordinated and community based ‘isolate, trace and support’ procedures are vital for control of the COVID-19 pandemic as lockdown is eased. To keep the frequency of new cases in the community manageable people must be supported to self isolate once they are identified as potentially infectious. To this end […]

Tags coronavirus, COVID-19, infection, isolation, public health, SARS-CoV-2, spread, Testing, tracing, TTIS

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Our exit from lockdown must be safe and sustainable

Post author By Dr Tom Riddington
Post date May 8, 2020

The UK has been in lockdown since March 23rd 2020 in an attempt to slow down the spread of COVID-19. Six weeks on the number of new cases per day has begun to decrease and the government and businesses are clamouring to restart the UK economy. We believe that people’s health should come before profit […]

Tags austerity, coronavirus, COVID-19, exit strategy, lockdown, physical distancing, PPE, public health, public sector cuts, TTIS

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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 […]

Tags contact tracing, coronavirus, COVID-19, government failure, guidelines, policy failure, Privatisation, SARS-CoV-2, Testing, TTIS, underfunding, WHO, world health organisation

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There is no exit from the COVID-19 lockdown without population testing

Post author By Dr Tom Riddington
Post date April 14, 2020

It is not possible to undertake any meaningful planning for an exit strategy from the current lockdown without an understanding of COVID-19’s prevalence and our current levels of immunity. On April 2nd Health Secretary Matt Hancock promised to test 100,000 people daily by the end of the month. On that same day the UK was testing ten times […]

Tags coronavirus, COVID-19, epidemiology, exit strategy, infection, population testing, SARS-CoV-2, TTIS