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Doctor's in Unite have always supported safety and we have worked closely with them. Of course, it is their role to speak for HCWs - but we speak for Clinically Vulnerable HCWs and patients (so there is definitely overlap).
Can you imagine!?!
The healthcare report is due out in under 2 weeks and we will all be in the room to read it. CATA and LC have always been excellent allies during the inquiry process.
We all recognise the need for safety.
Well if you want traction on SM if you mention it your posts are suppressed... what can you do?!?
This is a combination of the Chair's final statement - where she will most certainly make recommendations and the annual National Day of Reflection.
Her next set of the recommendations (which the government promised to follow...) are due out in under 2 weeks in relation to healthcare.
Today is the National Day of Reflection.
The UK "must learn lessons" - not only "to be better prepared for the next pandemic" but to protect vulnerable lives and health now.
Our thoughts are with everyone who suffered and those living with loss. ❤️💛
This "memory" from 5 years ago popped up. From Rupert Murdoch's papers.
💨Ventilation units
😷Face masks (not 'facecoverings')
💻Even individual desks with laptops
👪Only 9 kids per class 👪👪
🧱Lots of dividers
🚻Plus, knee operated sinks!
👏👏👏Thanks to Rivka Gottlieb from @cbffjuk.bsky.social 💕
Ongoing issues today:
"Wider access to vaccination...
Legislation around air quality...
Mask wearing in healthcare settings that would protect the vulnerable."
These are simple things, but they have become so politicised."
Clinically Vulnerable children and children in Clinically Vulnerable households need safe schools - which includes safe air.
🚨 NEW DfE GUIDANCE
- VENTILATION & AIR QUALITY -
Clean air matters - especially for #ClinicallyVulnerable children, staff and families. This is an important recognition that airborne transmission is preventable.
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Thanks Adam, hopefully we are starting to see some movement... even if there is still no funding for airborne protective measures.
Clean air protects everyone - but for some children it had become the difference between access and exclusion.
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Clinically Vulnerable Families would like to see a lower threshold to below 800ppm, provision of dedicated funding, and the recognition of clean air as an equality issue.
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If we are serious about lessons learned, indoor air quality must be treated like water quality - regulated, monitored and properly funded.
Not optional or aspirational.
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Clean air shouldn’t depend on whether a school can afford HEPA filters from its existing budget. That leaves CV families children effectively excluded from education when community airborne transmission rises.
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There is also no meaningful ringfenced funding. Schools are being told to monitor and improve ventilation - but without sustained capital investment in mechanical ventilation, filtration and maintenance. Guidance without funding widens inequality.
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If we’ve learned anything from the pandemic, it’s that minimum compliance is not the same as safety. #ClinicallyVulnerable pupils cannot “choose” lower exposure if the baseline standard is poor.
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But the proposed CO₂ thresholds are too high. 800ppm should be the upper limit - not 1500ppm. By 1500ppm, air is already significantly rebreathed. That’s not a precautionary standard for children, let alone those at higher risk.
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www.gov.uk/government/p...
🚨 NEW DfE GUIDANCE
- VENTILATION & AIR QUALITY -
Clean air matters - especially for #ClinicallyVulnerable children, staff and families. This is an important recognition that airborne transmission is preventable.
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Fantastic, good to know. Poor ventilation has long term help impacts and is an accessibility consideration for Clinically Vulnerable people and those in Clinically Vulnerable households.
Permanent is a strong word! But you are welcome to keep it in your own website and credit / link back to us (if it helps?).
Older woman at home using a nasal spray correctly, sitting upright with her head slightly tilted forward. She holds the spray in her opposite hand and inserts the nozzle into her nostril, angled outward toward the ear rather than toward the center of the nose, demonstrating proper technique.
🐁 Universal nasal spray vaccine for cold, flu, Covid and allergies shows promise in mice.
A human version could still be 5–7 years away... 🤞🤞
Concerns about the changes that are needed to learn lessons.
79% of recent Covid-19 infections in Wales were hospital acquired.
The Welsh Bereaved were frustrated by the failure of an the Welsh national investigation into nosocomial infections.
"Their sense of dread when a loved one was admitted to hospital unconnected to Covid-19, and the feeling of inevitability that they would become infected and die"
Local authorities struggled to support those who were identified as CEV, as the lack of data hampered outreach.
Later they worked to co-design support models.
Thanks also to @tuc.org.uk for highlighting how pre-existing health inequalities due to:
Depleted public services
Health improvement stalled
Health inequalities increasing
Health among the poorest declining
As @adamwagner1.bsky.social's statement is both very important, and quite long - we recommend that you watch it in full, and subscribe to our YouTube channel whilst you are there! 💙💗💜
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youtu.be/cuCQcLKrVLg?...
🚨OPENING SUBMISSIONS
'Impact on Society' - UK Covid-19 Inquiry
Adam Wagner KC, on behalf of CVF, identified unequal impacts and that Clinically Vulnerable people cannot be expected to protect themselves.
He asks for:
Safety
Support and
Status (under the Equality Act)
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