IOSH Article: "Nurses with Long Covid being let down by employers".
Indebted to Dr Alison Twycross @alitwy, Chair of RCN Long COVID Working Group & her colleagues for producing this thorough and detailed survey, though saddening and moving.
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@alitwy This is the immeasurable human cost in terms of suffering and misery arising from highly flawed IPC guidance running rampant throughout the NHS, mandating surgical masks as "protection" against an airborne, highly pathogenic virus.
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Apr 26, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
* HEALTHCARE WORKERS WITH LONG COVID *
Does your employer deny your disease was 'occupational exposure'? Refused to report under RIDDOR?
A Safety Practitioner's view on how RIDDOR should have been applied to Covid-19 infections of HCWs.
NB Important - See notes in next tweet
The Flow Diagram in the previous tweet should be read in conjunction with these accompanying notes which give further details, explain its limitations and explain the rationale behind it.
You can download the flow diagram + notes as a single PDF file. tridenthse.co.uk/riddor/Flow_Di…
Apr 9, 2023 • 13 tweets • 9 min read
@kallmemeg@BylineTimes As one of the researchers in the BLT article, I assure you there is nothing ‘fake’ about this article.
Therefore please address your comments to me, not BLT.
My response to your dismissive tweet: 1) RIDDOR was NOT revoked and has REMAINED IN FORCE throughout the pandemic.
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@kallmemeg@BylineTimes 2) HSE guidance throughout the pandemic has been that deaths arising from occupational exposure to Covid-19 MUST be reported to them.
3) NHS-Employers guidance also required deaths to be reported to HSE under RIDDOR (over and above CPNS).
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Jan 25, 2023 • 13 tweets • 13 min read
Problems looming on the pandemic front? Not COVID-19 - A new one…!
With avian flu (H5N1) in the country, most people were concerned as to whether they would get their Christmas turkey or when the supply of eggs would get back to normal in the shops.
However, with the virus around us in such quantities the concern to epidemiologists has always been whether a human-to-human mutation would occur. It seems that it has. We may yet have to hunker down!
Dec 23, 2022 • 4 tweets • 11 min read
'Long Covid Doctors for Action’, along with the BMA are running a survey to assess the impact of Long Covid. Although the survey is for doctors, the outcome should be beneficial to ALL healthcare professions. See this link for details. PLS CIRCULATE WIDELY tridenthse.co.uk/survey.html
NB. This is housed on my website simply due to the fact that, at Friday evening, 23rd December the chances of finding any webmasters still at work are pretty remote! And the survey deadline is 6 Jan.
I confirm that I have no commercial or financial interest in this matter.
