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Lasting Harm: The Impact of Long Covid on Scottish Health and Social Care Workers
A Survey by Scottish Healthcare Workers Coalition, in partnership with Thompsons Solicitors (Correspondence to scothealthcareworkerscoalition[at]gmail[dot]com)Date of publication: 8th April 2024 Executive Summary When Covid-19 emerged in early 2020, Health and Social Care staff were at increasing risk of contracting Covid-19 and of subsequently developing Long Covid or other post-Covid illness. Staff were inadequately protected from…
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Protection from airborne infections in health AND SOCIAL CARE SETTINGS
This Wednesday 17 April, the Scottish petition – the first of the three UK nations’ petitions on the topic of protection from airborne infections in health & social care settings, will be considered. It will be interesting to see how it goes. You can watch it live or afterwards on Scottish Parliament TV . It’s…
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13th March: support Long Covid groups in Edinburgh!
On 13th March, Long Covid Scotland is organising a Call to action photo call outside the Scottish Parliament from 13:00 to 13:30 (please arrive at 12.45). If you live in or near Edinburgh, please consider going along to lend your support! Please wear an FFP2 or FFP3 mask to help protect each other. There will…
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Video: Covid 19 and our immune system
Here’s the video of Professor Yaneer Bar- Yam speaking at our online public meeting on Saturday 24th February. Professor Bar-Yam is the President of the New England Complex Systems Institute and co-founded the World Health Network, which advocates for good, science-based public health. He has worked on multiple zoonotic outbreaks, and has worked with many…
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Public meeting: Covid-19 and our immune system
Public meeting (via Zoom) on Saturday, 24th February, 2.30 to 4pm Please register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0kdOGgqjwsG9PX7hXO_eQ6HD3uBprMnUeU Recently, many people have been suffering from frequent infections, complaining about themselves and their children getting one bout of cold or flu after another. More serious infections, such as Strep A, are also on the rise. Some newspapers still write…
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sign the petition
“Take action to protect people from airborne infections in health and social care settings” https://petitions.parliament.scot/petitions/PE2071 Please sign this petition and use the buttons to share it on your social media channels.
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Report from our meeting on safe healthcare for all
Following a very informative public meeting #SafeHealthcare4All here are the speakers’ videos & slides. You can access Evonne’s slides as a PDF here and Natalie’s slides here. Here’s what’s happening next & what you can do to help put a stop to harmful ‘healthcare’ – 30th November online action.
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Online Action for Safe Healthcare in Scotland
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…
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Public meeting: Safe healthcare for all!
Across Scotland, the last mitigations against Covid-19 and other airborne infections have been removed this year from health and social care. This is exposes all staff and patients – even those most vulnerable, such as transplant patients and patients undergoing chemotherapy – to constant risk of an infection. No infections disease kills and disables as…
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Urgent e-action to MSPs: reinstate universal masking in health and social care!
Please write to your MSPs today and urge them to support call by the Scottish Healthcare Workers Coalition and others to keep staff and patients in health- and social care safe from Covid and other airborne diseases: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/we-need-masks-in-healthcare In May this year, the Scottish government wrote to health boards and social care providers, advising that…
Covid Action Scotland
the website of the Covid Action Scotland campaign
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