Why has Britain Failed on Covid?
Richard Horton, Editor, The Lancet
WE’RE HIRING: Administrative Assistant for HAFSON (Hammersmith and Fulham Save our NHS)
This is a part-time position for a self-employed person to support the work of our local NHS campaigning organisation. Closing date for applications is: Friday 12th March 2021. Click on ‘Read More’ for further details. read more…
To those who say the NHS is ‘nothing special’ – you should be ashamed
‘There is no rational basis for the adulation the NHS is currently receiving.’ Those are the words of right-wing think-tank, the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA). According to them the NHS is ‘nothing special’. When I read more…
White Paper: power grab, sea change or cementing in the status quo?
Some of the headlines and reports on the leaked draft White Paper outlining plans for a new top-down reorganisation of the NHS are quite remarkable. The Times and the BBC, clearly following a steer from Downing Street both heralded the read more…
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A vaccination site that was due to open in Hammersmith this week has been delayed by a fortnight due to a shortage in supply of jabs, MyLondon can reveal. The news will add to concern about read more…
My dad might have had a fighting chance if the NHS he loved hadn’t been undermined
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THANK GOODNESS OUR HOSPITALS WERE SAVED!
If campaigners had not, for so many years, worked so hard to protect our local hospitals, Charing Cross and Ealing, there would have been even fewer beds available for the mass of patients with covid now read more…
Covid and me: 10 days on life support
I’d been under the weather for four days. Back then, in mid-November, the government’s pet message was the three symptoms of Covid-19: a persistent cough, loss of smell or taste, or a raised temperature. I had read more…
‘Racialised patterns’ of occupational risk found for emergency clinicians during pandemic
Nearly one in five BAME clinicians not risk-assessed by trust, according to survey Almost half of BAME respondents say they have failed a fit-testing, compared with 37pc of white respondents These are ‘systemic issues’, says royal read more…