Please join our online Action for Safe Healthcare in Scotland on Thursday, 30th November, between 12 noon and 2pm!

Why?

Covid-19 and other airborne viruses are circulating in Scottish health and social care without any meaningful measures to prevent infections. No patients or staff, not even those most vulnerable, such as transplant patients and patients undergoing chemotherapy, are protected from infections. No infectious disease kills and disables as many people as Covid-19. The death rate from in-hospital transmissions is far higher than that in the wider community, because patients are already unwell and particularly vulnerable.

How to take part:

Between 12 noon and 2pm on 30th November, please post a photo of yourself wearing a mask – or, if you prefer not showing a selfie – of a soft toy with a mask, with a message calling for Safe Health and Social Care. Aternatively, you can write a sign saying #SafeHealthcare or #MakeHospitalsSafe and photograph that. Please click on “add description” under your photo when you’ve uploaded it and then write a description for people who are visually impaired.

If you use Twitter, Mastodon or any other platform using hashtags, then please include #SafeHealthcare and #MakeHospitalsSafe in your message.

If you use Twitter, then please tag Health Minister @MathesonMichael, National Clinical Lead @jasonleitch and Chief Medical Officer @DrGregorSmith. Please also tag your local health board (see bottom of this post for the Twitter handles). To tag accounts, you need to click on “tag people” under your photo, enter on Twitter handle at a time, and click ‘done’ at the end.

Possible messages to share could say:

+ Patients and staff in health and social care deserve being protected from infection. In the age of Covid, this means high-grade masks, ventilation and air filtering – and infected staff staying staying home on full pay. #SafeHealthcare and #MakeHospitalsSafe

+ Covid-19 continues to needlessly kill and harm patients across health and social care, and to repeatedly infect staff, causing more and more to become chronically ill and disabled. It’s past time to keep all patients and staff safe with good masks, clean air, and paid self-isolation for infected staff! #SafeHealthcare and #MakeHospitalsSafe

+…..Or your own, personal message, perhaps about your own experiences

If you would like to join but have no social media account, then please email us your photo and message and we will post it (with or without your name, as you wish): zerocovidscotland@gmail.com

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Twitter handles for different Health Boards in Scotland:

Ayrhire and Arran: @NHSaaa

Borders: @NHSBorders

Dumfries and Galloway: @DGNHS

Fife: @nhsfife

Forth Valley: @NHSForthValley

Grampian: @NHSGrampian

Greater Glasgow and Clyde: @NHSGGC

Highland: @NHSHighland

Lanarkshire: @NHSLanarkshire

Lothian: @NHS_Lothian

Orkney: @NHSOrkney

Shetland: @NHS_Shetland

Tayside: @NHSTayside

Western Isles: @NHSWI ]