Long Covid Doctors for Action
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ATTENTION 📣 all NHS healthcare workers occupationally injured by
#Covid
Thousands of HCW contracted covid at work in absence of adequate airborne protections.
Legal recourse is now the only route for those injured to seek justice and support for themselves.
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NHS staff with long Covid are now losing their jobs in droves.
Beware-on applying for industrial illness benefits, if asked if you filled your car with fuel, the application goes no further as you might have caught Covid from touching the fuel pump handle
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💥UK HEALTHCARE WORKERS💥
Are you a NHS healthcare worker who caught
#Covid_19
at work and suffered significant injury as a result?
If so, you are invited to join our group litigation. This class action is for
ALL NHS HEALTHCARE WORKERS IN ALL UK NATIONS
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Ahead of tonight’s hard-hitting
#ITV
drama
#breathtaking
, nothing has changed. Despite political denial,
#CovidIsntOver
& still poses a significant threat to health. 300 dying in hospitals each week.
NHS HCWs are now taking legal action. Occupationally injured? Join us..
🧵
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Since going to press last week, we are pleased to share, hundreds of injured UK NHS healthcare workers have joined our group litigation.
💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽
We are fighting back.
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Hospitals are currently neither safe for workers nor patients.
Workers have a legal right to be adequately protected at work and patients have a right to be cared for in safe environments.
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We have secured legal representation for ALL NHS healthcare workers in ALL UK nations.
If you are an NHS workers significantly injured by occupational exposure to
#Covid_19
, then YOU are invited to join our legal action.
Claims are operating on ‘no win, no fee’ basis.
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UK Government are allowing
#Covid
to to run rampant.
Still, 4 years on, UK healthcare workers are STILL going to work unprotected.
We believe there now needs to be justice and legal accountability for those NHS healthcare workers occupationally injured.
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Survey results captured in new policy paper:
Over-exposed and under-protected: the long-term impact of COVID-19 on doctors
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Are you a HCW worker who’s caught
#Covid_19
at work and suffered significant injury as a result?
If yes, you invited to join our group Litigation.
🌟 ALL NHS healthcare workers in ALL nations are welcome to join 🌟
England - Wales - Scotland - NI
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NHS healthcare workers injured in England or Wales, please contact firm, Bond Turner
Solicitor Sara Sanger is leading on this action.
@bondturnersols
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As well as seeking justice for those injured, we hope this group action spurs positive change & leads to the implementation of airborne protections.
We look forward to fighting alongside those of you who retain the services of the aforementioned firms.
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ENGLAND and WALES:
👉🏽 If you are an NHS HWC who’s been injured in England or Wales, please contact Bond Turner.
Here:
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The firm will help establish if you have a case and will email the relevant retainer paperwork for your consideration.
Please note. It is not until you sign and return this paperwork that you have retained the services of the firm.
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ON THE FRONTLINE My life was wrecked by the Covid pandemic – ITV’s new drama series ‘
#Breathtaking
’ is shocking… but true
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1/ For some of us,
#BREATHAKING
was a not a drama; we lived it.
Some of us never recovered.
We are a group of UK medical doctors who have organised a national group litigation.
If you’re a NHS healthcare worker injured by occupationally acquired
#Covid_19
, then join us 🧵
Ahead of tonight’s hard-hitting
#ITV
drama
#breathtaking
, nothing has changed. Despite political denial,
#CovidIsntOver
& still poses a significant threat to health. 300 dying in hospitals each week.
NHS HCWs are now taking legal action. Occupationally injured? Join us..
🧵
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NHS workers injured in Scotland, please contact firm, Jackson Boyd
Solicitor Debbie Milne is leading on this action.
@JacksonBoydLLP
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SCOTLAND
👉🏽 If you are an NHS HWC who’s been injured in Scotland, please contact Jackson Boyd.
Here:
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NHS healthcare workers injured in Northern Ireland, please contact firm, Lacey’s (Belfast)
Solicitor Damian McGeady is leading on this action.
@Laceyssolicitor
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NORTHERN IRELAND
👉🏽 If you are an NHS healthcare worker who’s been injured in NI, please complete this short form (<1 min):
We are currently collating the details of HCWs injured in NI and will help assist this group to secure legal representation.
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Failures in
#PPE
policy are still putting the lives of patients and UK NHS healthcare workers at risk. Are you an NHS healthcare injured by occupationally acquired
#Covid_19
? Join our group litigation..
#BREATHTAKING
#LongCovid
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@carolvorders
Inadequacies in PPE equipment & failures in policy have placed the lives of UK healthcare workers at risk throughout the pandemic.
Injured HCWs who contracted
#COVID19
at work & suffered injury as a result are invited to join our group litigation
Please amplify.👇🏽
💥UK HEALTHCARE WORKERS💥
Are you a NHS healthcare worker who caught
#Covid_19
at work and suffered significant injury as a result?
If so, you are invited to join our group litigation. This class action is for
ALL NHS HEALTHCARE WORKERS IN ALL UK NATIONS
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To be clear: all NHS healthcare workers in all four nations are invited to join our group action.
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Claims are being run on a ‘no win, no fee’ basis.
We need to collate the names of those interested to pursue legal action in a timely manner, so if you are interested to join our group litigation, please don’t delay in contacting the aforementioned firms
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We understand this is a lot of information to take in when you are brain-damaged and feel unwell.
We are here to support you.
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Bond Turner and Jackson Boyd are offering a "no win, no fee" agreement.
We encourage all those interested to pursue group litigation to contact the relevant firm as soon as possible as we need to collate the names of those wanting to join our action in a timely manner.
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TODAY,
@itvnews
, ahead of airing
#ITV
drama
#BREATHTAKING
, there will be a masked demonstration outside
🦠 ST THOMAS’ HOSPITAL, 1pm 🦠
#CovidIsntOver
#CovidIsAirborne
#CleanTheAir
.
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For the avoidance of doubt, completion of this form to express your interest in group litigation does not create a contract, nor does it obligate you to pay any fees.
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1/ People are starting to realise
#Covid
hasn’t gone anywhere.
They are realising that they’ve been lied to.
They understand
#COVIDisAirborne
& are taking steps to protect their health by wearing
#FFP2
/
#FFP3
masks and demanding
#CleanAir
Short 🧵
I kid you not, there were 3 other people on the bus tonight wearing masks, and two were FFP3s!! And this was just downstairs; one can only imagine how many there were upstairs!
Is this the inflection point for the entire pandemic??
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Pls amplify to help reach as many injured NHS HCWs as possible.
@LC_UK_Action
@LongCovidNews
@LongCovidSOS
@long_covid
@LCNMUK
@longcovidpod
@FreshAirNHS
@TheBMA
@theRCN
@DoctorsInUnite
@hazardscampaign
@HCSANews
@ZeroCovidScot
@ScotHWCoalition
@doctor_oxford
@carolvorders
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Pls amplify to help reach as many injured NHS HCWs as possible.
@_CatintheHat
@KeyWorkerPetUK
@danielgoyal
@trishgreenhalgh
@SGriffin_Lab
@bondturnersols
@JacksonBoydLLP
@BinitaKane
@doctorasadkhan
@dgurdasani1
@drclairetaylor
@DrAmirKhanGP
@drsanjaygupta
@IndependentSage
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Four yrs since the start of the pandemic & nothing has changed. Ongoing failures in IPC policy continue to place the lives of patients & workers at risk, especially the refusal to prevent airborne transmission, the main route of spread of
#SARSCoV2
.
#LongCovidAwarenesDay
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The sooner you get this paperwork, the more time you have to read and digest it, and make an informed decision either way.
Again, a contract is not created between you and the firm until you sign and return the retainer paperwork.
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The firm will help establish if you have a case and will email the relevant retainer paperwork for you to consider and sign.
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If you are an injured HCW based in ENGLAND and WALES, please contact firm, Bond Turner.
Website:
📞 01512 363 737
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Hospitals currently aren’t safe for neither workers nor patients.
Routine testing for
#Covid_19
in hospitals in England stopped last year. But data from Public Health Wales on 4th February 2024 showed of patients hospitalised with Covid, 72% contracted in whilst in hospital
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⚠️ PUBLIC WARNING ⚠️
If you’re not aware, here’s your warning: Doctors are being replaced by non-medically trained physicians associates PAs. All part of their privatisation plan. Make sure you ask to see a doctor. Write to your local MP. Cause uproar.
#AskForADoctor
“We’re creating PAs to support NOT replace GPs” IS A COMPLETE LIE!
The practice I locum in have now replaced me with a PA 😞
I’ve been a GP for 10 years & can’t get work?!
My GP colleagues CANNOT GET work!
We ARE being replaced, by significantly less qualified people?!
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A reminder that all NHS healthcare workers, in all nations, who contracted
#COVID19
at work and have suffered significant injury as a result, are invited to join our group litigation. Please see our pinned tweet for further information.
#LongCovid
#NHS
#whosclappingnow
“They were there to support the sick and injured now they are sick and injured through no fault of their own.”
@fearnley_k
@Jane_Ryan_
@Dorsetecho
#LongCovidKids
#LongCovid
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📣 National group litigation 📣
All NHS HCW who caught
#COVID
at work & have sustained significant injury are invited to join
Deadline approaching
Pls contact the firms below at your earliest opportunity
If reading, pls RT, important we reach as many injured as possible 🙏🏽
💥UK HEALTHCARE WORKERS💥
Are you a NHS healthcare worker who caught
#Covid_19
at work and suffered significant injury as a result?
If so, you are invited to join our group litigation. This class action is for
ALL NHS HEALTHCARE WORKERS IN ALL UK NATIONS
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1/We are proud to have signed this open letter to Health Secretary,
@SteveBarclay
, calling for
#CleanAirBill
. We must now treat air quality by the same standards we treat water quality. Installation of ventilation systems in indoor public spaces is a basic public health measure.
LEGISLATE TO VENTILATE
✍️Long Covid Support have written an open letter to
@SteveBarclay
to ensure that effective Ventilation is available in all public spaces
📢We are calling for an URGENT
#VentilationBill
for all 🇬🇧 public spaces
#CleanAirNow
#DavosSafe
🧵We need your help👇
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HCWs have not only lost their health & independence, many have lost their ability to work and earn a living.
We know many are now facing financial destitution. Many have been forced to sell their homes & are having to rely on the support of extended family & use food banks
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Medical gaslighting of patients who have evidence of multi-organ inflammation driven by viral persistence, autoimmunity & abnormal clotting is not a good look.
Urgent investment into biomedical research is needed. Starting with how to clear a chronic
#SARSCoV2
infection.
Public Health Minister
@jenni_minto
has welcomed updates to the NHS Inform website long COVID guidance where Laura, Chris and others share their experiences and what has helped them live with long COVID.
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1/ This is a disgusting spread of medical misinformation
@xandvt
. Covid is unequivocally airborne. Whilst washing hands is a good thing to do - it does not clean the air!
@MattHancock
, the government need to stop sitting on their hands and invest in improving ventilation.
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PANORAMA: Forgotten heroes of the Covid frontline
Airs tonight (Monday 30th) at 8pm.
@BBCOne
@BBCPanorama
The program is available to watch now, ahead of tonights official airing, on BBC iPlayer:
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If you are injured HCW in SCOTLAND, please contact firm, Jackson Boyd:
Website:
📞 : 033 060 3936
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More needs to be done today to mitigate against airborne transmission.
There now needs to be a full investigation, legal accountability and justice for those HCWs injured.
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4/ YOUR health matters.
The health of your children matters.
Protecting your elderly parents matters.
Protecting others in society matters.
Let’s start caring about each other & all start demanding what we deserve: the right to breathe
#CleanAir
#CovidIsntOver
#CleanAirNOW
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FOUR years later and NOTHING has changed.
#COVID
is being allowed to run rampant.
Healthcare workers are STILL going to work unprotected.
Patients cannot access safe healthcare.
There now needs to be justice and legal accountability for UK healthcare workers injured.
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1a. To campaign and advocate for doctors with
#LongCovid
to remain in employment and to continue to have an income.
@TheBMA
@HCSANews
@DoctorsInUnite
@LCNMUK
@longcovidwork
@EveryDoctorUK
@TheDA_UK
@DAUK_GP
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2/ The importance of
#CleanAir
is not lost on government ministers who sit in the ventilated houses of Parliament.
And whilst they do so, they spread lies and encourage us to wash our hands, making us believe that this is sufficient protection.
Well, it is not.
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4 years later and nothing has changed. Workers are still going to work unprotected. Hospitals are currently neither safe for staff nor patients. Recent data from PHW showed 72% of patients hospitalised with
#Covid_19
caught it there! 300 dying/wk with Covid.
4 years and .. 🧵
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There is nothing psychological about the aetiology of the
#ME
. This is abuse of a severely unwell patient. This is now life-Threatening.
@MEActNetUK
@MEAssociation
@doctorasadkhan
@DocStrain
@NICEComms
can someone please intervene as a matter of urgency.This is not appropriate.
for a severe ME patient without causing further harm. Some professionals continue to maintain that in Millie’s very severe ME there is a ‘behavioural’/‘mental’ element. Despite not being able to speak from exhaustion Millie is deemed to have full mental capacity and uses a /5
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@carolvorders
@FT
Healthcare across the whole of the UK are now taking lack action
Pls RT. Important we reach as many injured HCWs as possible.
💥UK HEALTHCARE WORKERS💥
Are you a NHS healthcare worker who caught
#Covid_19
at work and suffered significant injury as a result?
If so, you are invited to join our group litigation. This class action is for
ALL NHS HEALTHCARE WORKERS IN ALL UK NATIONS
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We,
@LCD4A
, have secured legal representation for all NHS healthcare workers in all four nations.
Doctors, nurses, porters, domestics…
If you have been significantly injured by occupationally acquired
#Covid_19
then you are invited to join our class action.
To find our more:
💥UK HEALTHCARE WORKERS💥
Are you a NHS healthcare worker who caught
#Covid_19
at work and suffered significant injury as a result?
If so, you are invited to join our group litigation. This class action is for
ALL NHS HEALTHCARE WORKERS IN ALL UK NATIONS
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1b. To campaign for a contingency plan for UK doctors with
#LongCovid
who cannot remain in employment or lose their jobs, including:
👉🏽 routes to personal injury payments;
👉🏽 occupational injury compensation;
👉🏽 ill health retirement
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3a. To promote accurate information and education on
#LongCovid
, and its effects on us and others as individuals.
@LongCovidSOS
@LongCOVIDPhysio
@LongCovidKids
@LongCovidScot
@LongCovidWales
@lckwales
@longcovidirl
@SessionsTlc
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3b. To promote accurate information and education on the prevention and management of infection with SARS-Cov-2 in the community.
@NHSEngland
@PublicHealthIre
@PublicHealthW
@PublicHealthSCO
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💥UK HEALTHCARE WORKERS💥
Are you a NHS healthcare worker who caught
#Covid_19
at work and suffered significant injury as a result?
If so, you are invited to join our group litigation. This class action is for
ALL NHS HEALTHCARE WORKERS IN ALL UK NATIONS
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1c. To campaign and advocate for UK doctors with
#LongCovid
to be supported to return to work and/or training programmes, including reasonable accommodations and flexibility.
@RCPhysicians
@RCSnews
@RCObsGyn
@rcgp
@RCSEd
@rcpsglasgow
@RCPI_news
@RCollEM
@RCoANews
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We hate to inform you,
@scotgovhealth
, but exercise and Pilates will not cure abnormal clotting and autoimmunity.
You need to invest in medications to clear a chronic
#SARSCoV2
to do that.
#LongCovid
#viralpersistence
#medicalgaslighting
Public Health Minister
@jenni_minto
has welcomed updates to the NHS Inform website long COVID guidance where Laura, Chris and others share their experiences and what has helped them live with long COVID.
⬇️
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We are keen to follow, and be supported by, likeminded individuals and organisations who:
> want to support NHS workers
> want to raise awareness of
#LongCovid
& other post-acute covid illness.
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Are you going to intervene
@gmcuk
? A serious condition is being psychologised and a patient is suffering. This neglect - happening now - is likely to cause irreversible harm.
@NICEComms
@MEActNetUK
@MEAssociation
@CareRoyal
Many more similar cases where lessons still not being learned & harms continue to be perpetuated by powerful consultants / hospital managers not following evidence based NICE guidelines, not listening to patients and their carers, refusing to engage with external expertise
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First major survey of doctors with Long Covid reveals debilitating impact on health, life and work – and wider implications for workforce and health services
Lost jobs, lost income, debilitating symptoms that render even the most mundane tasks near-impossible, and huge barriers
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2. To campaign for workplace protections against airborne SARS-CoV-2 spread.
#COVIDisAirborne
#FFP3
#HEPA
@FreshAirNHS
@TheBMA
@DoctorsInUnite
@HCSANews
@H_S_E
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1d. To promote accurate information on the rights of UK doctors with
#LongCovid
in the workplace and other legal rights.
👉🏽 Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH) 2002.
#COSHH
👉🏽 Health & Safety at Work Act (HASAWA) 1974
#HASAWA
👉🏽 Equality Act (2010)
#EqualityAct
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to accessing treatment: these are the repeated stories of UK doctors living with
#LongCovid
, in response to a major survey carried out conjointly by
@LCD4A
and
@TheBMA
.
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Dear UK public, would you expect a medical professional to hold a medical degree?
Yes
207
No
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All tweets posted from this account have been written and/or approved by Dr Kelly Fearnley and Dr Shaun Qureshi
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Hi everyone. We are still looking for a doctor, a nurse/other AHP and other HCW who has retained the services of firm, to speak to a trusted journalist.
Please DM or comment below if you are able to help. Thanks all.
We are looking for a doctor, a nurse & other NHS worker, infected in 2020, who has recently joined our group litigation to speak with a trusted journalist about their experience of Long COVID.
Please comment below/message if you are able to assist.
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If you are a NHS healthcare worker significantly injury after contracting
#COVID19
at work, you are invited to join our group litigation. Details below.
@bondturnersols
@JacksonBoydLLP
@LaceySolicitors
We have secured legal representation for ALL NHS healthcare workers in ALL UK nations.
If you are an NHS workers significantly injured by occupational exposure to
#Covid_19
, then YOU are invited to join our legal action.
Claims are operating on ‘no win, no fee’ basis.
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Also, if you are 🩺 UK doctor who cares about post-acute covid illness, and/or want better workplace and community protections, we invite you to join our private FB group.
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If UK government is ‘committed to learning’ then why, in 4 yrs, has there been no investment in systems to monitor & clean indoor air in public spaces like hospitals, schools, workplaces and public transport?
Why are healthcare workers inadequately protected in the workplace?
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NATIONAL LITIGATION ✊🏽
The PPE scandal that left NHS workers vulnerable. NHS healthcare workers who have sustained significant injury after contracting
#covid
at work are now taking LEGAL ACTION. Occupationally injured? join us.👇🏽
#BREATHTAKING
#GroupLitigation
#PPEScandal
🧵
Ahead of tonight’s hard-hitting
#ITV
drama
#breathtaking
, nothing has changed. Despite political denial,
#CovidIsntOver
& still poses a significant threat to health. 300 dying in hospitals each week.
NHS HCWs are now taking legal action. Occupationally injured? Join us..
🧵
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@chrischirp
@trishgreenhalgh
@ProfEmer
@Saffiya_Khan1
@EmergMedDr
@bondturnersols
@SkyNews
@DavidMercerSky
@itvnews
@SGriffin_Lab
@rebslogan
If you are HCW injured in Scotland, please contact Jackson Boyd
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We encourage AS MANY AS POSSIBLE to email this letter to their GP surgery. We all deserve access to safe healthcare.
#CovidIsNotOver
#CovidIsAirborne
#CleanTheAir
I have written this letter to my
#GP
requesting protective measures to access safe healthcare
#CleanAir
#FFP3
Please feel free to use it.
#LongCovid
#LongCovidKids
#MedTwitter
#CovidIsAirborne
#CovidIsntOver
#BREATHTAKING
#MaskUp
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on their health, daily lives, employment and finances.
In a report published today () the findings paint a stark picture of the devastating impact Long Covid is having on this group of people who are in the front line and deserve to be
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3. Almost 2 in every 10 respondents (18%) reported that they were now unable to work due to their post-acute COVID ill-health;
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“I am almost housebound, and have had to buy a mobility scooter for the few occasions that I am well enough to get out. For the last 6 weeks I have been relying on family members to help me look after my children.” - consultant
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In the first comprehensive survey of doctors with post-acute Covid health complications (often referred to as ‘Long Covid’), almost 600 doctors suffering the continuing effects of Covid-19 were asked about the impact the condition is having
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2/ UK public, I am sorry this
@Conservatives
government are lying to you.
If you want to protect yourself, please wear an
#FFP3
/
#FFP2
mask.
The fit, as well as the grade of the mask, is important. It should form a seal around the face.
Open windows.
Ventilate.
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