👇#NHSVoices
"In its impact on mental health provision in this country, Covid strategy has been a moral disgrace…
We have enacted by diktat a serious moral failure of state, impacting the most vulnerable people.
I am deeply ashamed to have been part of it..."
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"In its impact on mental health provision in this country, Covid strategy has been a moral disgrace…
We have enacted by diktat a serious moral failure of state, impacting the most vulnerable people.
I am deeply ashamed to have been part of it..."
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"I work in mental health in England.
The last year has been the worst by far of my entire career.
This has not been because of Covid itself but because of the obsessional focus on Covid related risks at the expense of all else...
The last year has been the worst by far of my entire career.
This has not been because of Covid itself but because of the obsessional focus on Covid related risks at the expense of all else...
"I strongly believe that the public health interventions we have had to implement have caused severe, avoidable, harm, and that we have enacted by diktat a serious moral failure of state, impacting the most vulnerable people...
"There has been no strategy to mitigate these harms and no voice for those who seek balance.
For people with severe mental health problems, the pandemic has exacted an unjustifiable toll in terms of missed contact with clinicians...
For people with severe mental health problems, the pandemic has exacted an unjustifiable toll in terms of missed contact with clinicians...
"...the inability to undertake accurate assessment and meaningful intervention over video, impaired access to justice via the tribunal system operating remotely and, most egregiously of all, impaired access to primary care...
"...when we know this population has significantly reduced lifespan and higher physical morbidity.
The willingness of mental health + primary care clinicians to ‘down tools’ with full permission of management has led me to question the fundamental moral grounding of healthcare..
The willingness of mental health + primary care clinicians to ‘down tools’ with full permission of management has led me to question the fundamental moral grounding of healthcare..
"I have no faith that the harms suffered by people with severe mental illness will be given due witness in a public inquiry.
In its impact on mental health provision in this country, Covid strategy has been a moral disgrace.
I am deeply ashamed to have been part of it."
In its impact on mental health provision in this country, Covid strategy has been a moral disgrace.
I am deeply ashamed to have been part of it."
#NHSVoices is Recovery's new outlet for NHS staff to bring to light concerns about how Covid policies are affecting patients.
We have to do this anonymously because we know many are frightened to speak out.
👇NHS staff can submit their stories here: timeforrecovery.org/nhs/
We have to do this anonymously because we know many are frightened to speak out.
👇NHS staff can submit their stories here: timeforrecovery.org/nhs/
Intimidating NHS staff into silence is very dangerous.
Without urgent action to fix the NHS crisis now, patients will suffer and many will die needlessly.
And rather than own up, politicians and management will likely call for more lockdowns.
We cannot allow this...
Without urgent action to fix the NHS crisis now, patients will suffer and many will die needlessly.
And rather than own up, politicians and management will likely call for more lockdowns.
We cannot allow this...
👇NHS staff can submit their stories here: timeforrecovery.org/nhs/
👇And you can read more #NHSVoices here: timeforrecovery.org/nhs-voices/
#NHS #mentalhealth #LockDown #TimeForRecovery
👇And you can read more #NHSVoices here: timeforrecovery.org/nhs-voices/
#NHS #mentalhealth #LockDown #TimeForRecovery
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