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38 Degrees are calling for people to sign their latest petition, on the way migrants are being treated and left without healthcare despite the pandemic. Sign up here.

A campaign by front-line doctors to secure better PPE mounted a protest at Downing Street during the last ‘Clap for Carers’ applause (Thursday 28 May). Doctors for the NHS supports their campaign.  (more…)

Clearing the decks in hospitals, in order to respond to the first wave of patients with Covid-19, has avoided the desperate scenes that were seen in hospitals in the north of Italy and in New York City, but has come at a cost. (more…)

Doctors for the NHS (DFNHS) has called on contact tracing for Covid-19 to be put back into the public domain, after early reports  [1] of ‘shambolic and inadequate’ recruitment and training of contact-tracing staff by private Call-Centre firm, Sitel. (more…)

We condemn Home Secretary Priti Patel’s decision not to scrap the NHS surcharge for overseas NHS and Care workers, which is set to rise to over £600 a year despite the fact that these ‘essential front-line, key’ workers pay the same tax and national insurance as anyone else doing their job. (more…)

Recording and comparing deaths from Covid-19 – every one of them a tragedy for families and individuals – should demand the highest possible transparency and clarity. But the reality falls far short. (more…)

Government is spending vast amounts to combat Covid-19, but there is a reluctance to use this money to rebuild public services – a long-term investment that would benefit us all through the duration of this crisis and beyond. (more…)

Keep Our NHS Public and Health Campaigns Together are running an online meeting on Tuesday 5 May (7-9 pm) examining why the NHS was so badly prepared for the pandemic – and what may lie ahead. (more…)