Political campaigning group We Own It are calling on the public to sign a petition demanding that Serco has its contract for track and trace of Covid cases removed, in the light of grave doubts about its performance. Sign here.
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Healthcare for Migrants – 38 Degrees call for petition signatures
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.
PPE for NHS staff campaign mount Downing Street Protest
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…)
A Crisis or An Opportunity – Life and the NHS After Covid
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…)
‘Put on Hold’? Is a Call-Centre Model the way to Contact-Trace Covid?
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…)
A Strange Kind of Welcome
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…)
Covid-19: are there lessons from history?
Currently we are caught in a maelstrom of the very alien and all-too-human. What are we to make of our healthcarers having to face a dangerous pandemic while so dangerously ill-equipped? Some historical snapshots may explain. (more…)
The deadly numbers game: Covid-19 and the death certificate
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…)
Private good – public bad. A question of trust?
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…)
Online meeting 5 May – What Now for the NHS?
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…)