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SHA COVID-19 Blogs

  • SHA COVID-19 Blog 20 July 27, 2020
  • SHA COVID-19 Blog 19 July 20, 2020
  • SHA COVID-19 Blog 18 July 13, 2020
  • SHA COVID-19 Blog 17 July 6, 2020
  • SHA COVID-19 Blog 16 June 29, 2020
  • SHA COVID-19 Blog 15 June 22, 2020
  • SHA COVID-19 Blog 14 June 15, 2020
  • SHA COVID-19 Blog 13 June 8, 2020
  • SHA COVID-19 Blog 12 June 1, 2020
  • SHA COVID-19 Blog 11 May 25, 2020
  • SHA COVID-19 Blog 10 May 18, 2020
  • SHA COVID-19 Blog 9 May 11, 2020
  • SHA COVID-19 Blog 8 May 4, 2020
  • SHA COVID-19 Blog 7 April 27, 2020
  • SHA COVID-19 Blog 6 April 20, 2020
  • SHA COVID-19 blog 5 April 13, 2020
  • SHA COVID-19 Blog 4 April 6, 2020
  • SHA COVID-19 Blog 3 March 31, 2020
  • SHA COVID-19 Blog 2 March 23, 2020
  • SHA COVID-19 Blog 1 March 17, 2020

All other SHA COVID-19 posts

  • CROI 2021: Community call highlights CROI 6-month pay wall rather than usual open access March 11, 2021
  • Major speech on coronavirus by Justin Madders February 23, 2021
  • Launch and Crowdfunder for KONP’s People’s COVID Inquiry February 5, 2021
  • Are animal products in the COVID vaccines? Are they Halal? January 12, 2021
  • NHSE/I consultation January 9, 2021
  • This is a statement released by Doctors in Unite. SHA members supported the drafting. January 5, 2021
  • Q&A on COVID vaccines: are they safe and effective? December 22, 2020
  • NHS England pushes for “integration” … but not as we know it December 15, 2020
  • The Moonshot mistake November 19, 2020
  • EDUCATION AND COVID ADVICE == WALES November 15, 2020
  • The Tories are attempting something even Thatcher and austerity could not achieve November 10, 2020
  • Our NHS in Crisis November 10, 2020
  • THE TORIES’ HEALTH INVESTMENT MERRY-GO-ROUND November 9, 2020
  • SHA Cymru statement in support of the First Minister and Welsh Government November 6, 2020
  • Update from Labour Team North West November 5, 2020
  • Asymptomatic Covid-19 screening in Liverpool November 5, 2020
  • Biomedical scientists carrying out Covid-19 tests at Lancashire NHS trust ‘short-changed’ by £7,000-a-year November 2, 2020
  • Our NHS in Crisis Issue: 110 November 2, 2020
  • Human Rights Ignored During Pandemic October 19, 2020
  • Command and Control Management: October 9, 2020
  • Stop private sector outsourcing, as NHS laboratories ‘sidelined’ for Covid-19 testing, says Unite September 16, 2020
  • A Scottish Care Service September 4, 2020
  • Over 70 health organisations unite to raise serious concerns with Government about plans to reorganise the public health system September 2, 2020
  • THE FAILED LEADERSHIP OF SOCIAL CARE, BANKRUPT OF IDEAS August 18, 2020
  • Plans to “scrap” Public Health England: A Socialist Health Association Response August 18, 2020
  • Public Health England is being used as a scapegoat for government’s Covid-19 failings, says Unite August 17, 2020
  • Why the UK failed the pandemic test August 3, 2020
  • Pay is ‘elephant in the room’, says Unite, as new NHS England People Plan launched July 30, 2020
  • HIV i-Base publish the sixth COVID-19 supplement to HTB July 30, 2020
  • Unite renews call for pandemic public inquiry, following MPs’ report into untested patients discharged to care homes July 29, 2020
  • Anger over NHS pay sparks Downing Street march tomorrow July 28, 2020
  • Durham health visitor and school nurse job losses ‘incomprehensible’ with Covid-19 still prevalent, says Unite July 24, 2020
  • More people need to be encouraged to take up routine vaccinations as we recover from Covid-19, BMA warns July 24, 2020
  • TEST, TRACE AND PROTECT IN WALES; A PUBLIC SERVICE RESPONSE TO COVID-19 July 21, 2020
  • AVAC and TAG Statement on Ethical Conduct of SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Challenge Studies July 18, 2020
  • COVID-19: BAME communities living with HIV and a short interview with Dr Ameen Kamlana July 12, 2020
  • HIV and COVID-19: new publication July 1, 2020
  • £25m cut to London Fire Brigade “unthinkable”, Fire Brigades Union warns Mayor and Prime Minister June 26, 2020
  • Doctors in Unite — Crush Covid June 22, 2020
  • SHA Briefing – Primary Care June 22, 2020
  • Lets not forget prevention (yet again) or measles and flu may come to bite us June 21, 2020
  • FRONTLINE QUESTIONS AND FEEDBACK FOR THE SHADOW TEAM 14 6 20 June 15, 2020
  • Disastrous UK RECOVERY study stops hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) for COVID-19: more than 1100 deaths question ethics and safety overall June 8, 2020
  • Firefighters agree to continue coronavirus response June 4, 2020
  • ‘Class and race’ biggest factors for victims of coronavirus, says Unite June 2, 2020
  • SHA statement on reopening schools in England during the COVID19 pandemic May 31, 2020
  • Briefing Topic 3 – Test, Trace, outsourcing May 30, 2020
  • News from the Frontline 29.05.20 May 29, 2020
  • Briefing Topic 2 – Inequalities May 28, 2020
  • Coronavirus: Join us at our first virtual public meeting featuring Jeremy Corbyn May 27, 2020
  • Briefing Topic 1 – BAME May 27, 2020
  • COVID-19 BASHH resources May 23, 2020
  • COVID-19: Firefighters called in to help stem spread of infection in care homes May 22, 2020
  • Thousands of care workers could be ineligible for £60,000 Covid-19 payment, warns Unite May 22, 2020
  • Defend Our NHS: Corona Confusion: lies, deceit, trickery and failure May 22, 2020
  • Johnson’s refusal to waive £400 charge for NHS migrant workers ‘mean-spirited’, says Unite May 21, 2020
  • To get our children back into education, but we need a locally managed approach and data. May 21, 2020
  • Covid-19: food and health inequalities and the future of public health nutrition May 20, 2020
  • News from the Frontline 20.05.20 May 20, 2020
  • May 2020 issue: Sexual Health, Reproductive Health & HIV Policy eBulletin and COVID-19 May 19, 2020
  • Studies reporting lack of benefit from hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19 May 19, 2020
  • FEEDBACK AND TOUGH QUESTIONS 17 5 2020 May 17, 2020
  • Our NHS in Crisis May 17, 2020
  • News from the Frontline 17.05.20. May 17, 2020
  • Unions’ blueprint on NHS reopening is a ‘rocket booster’ for ministers to tackle PPE and testing crises, says Unite May 15, 2020
  • Treasury leak: Firefighters vow to fight any public sector real-terms pay cut May 13, 2020
  • Blanket DNACPRs are not the solution for panicked healthcare rationing May 12, 2020
  • Covid-19 and BAME deaths: A call for action May 12, 2020
  • Sexual and reproductive healthcare for women during COVID-19 – from FSRH May 12, 2020
  • Doctors in Unite: Statement on Exit from Lockdown May 10, 2020
  • UK HAS THE HIGHEST DEATH TOLL IN EUROPE – PUBLIC HEALTH IS A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH May 7, 2020
  • Plans by NHS bosses to create a super lab in north west ‘under the radar’ during coronavirus crisis attacked by Unite May 7, 2020
  • News from the Frontline 06.05.20 May 6, 2020
  • UNITE THE UNION May 6, 2020
  • From new ultraviolet wavelengths to virucidal face masks: Could these new technologies help defeat coronavirus? May 5, 2020
  • I was at the Zoom Meeting on the 29th April 2020 May 2, 2020
  • News from the Frontline 01.05.20 May 1, 2020
  • WELSH GOVERNMENT PROVIDES ADDITIONAL £500 PAYMENT FOR SOCIAL CARE WORKFORCE May 1, 2020
  • News from the Frontline 29.04.20 (2) April 28, 2020
  • News from the Frontline 29.04.20 (1) April 28, 2020
  • All COVID-19 key worker deaths must be recognised as work-related, union says April 28, 2020
  • Brutal cuts to fire and rescue services being rushed through during the pandemic, union says April 27, 2020
  • Sunday Times Response to Government April 27, 2020
  • FRONTLINE EXPERIENCE AND TOUGH QUESTIONS 26 4 20 April 27, 2020
  • WELSH STEPS TO EASE COVID-19 PUBLIC HEALTH MEASURES – UPDATE April 24, 2020
  • DOCTORS IN UNITE SUPPORT PETITION FOR PROPER NHS FUNDING April 24, 2020
  • On the calculated death rates from coronavirus. April 24, 2020
  • News from the Front Line 21.04.20. April 22, 2020
  • Defend Our NHS: Test! Trace! PPE! April 21, 2020
  • WHO COVID-19 Database launches new search interface April 20, 2020
  • ROSIE COOPER MP CALLS FOR AN INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION INTO ALL NHS COVID-19 DEATHS April 20, 2020
  • Covid-19 Mutual Aid UK: Guide for Supporting Migrants During Coronavirus April 20, 2020
  • THREE WEEKS FOR REFLECTION – COVID 19 WALES April 18, 2020
  • Join the biggest citizen science project ever: the COVID19 symptom tracker April 18, 2020
  • Firefighters respond to extension of coronavirus testing April 17, 2020
  • Coronavirus: Firefighters now allowed to carry out antigen tests April 16, 2020
  • Unite statement on coronavirus – and its impact on paramedics and other NHS workers and social care staff April 16, 2020
  • QUESTIONS TO ASK THE SOS FOR HEALTH April 15, 2020
  • Potential treatments for COVID-19 could be manufactured for $1 a day or less April 15, 2020
  • PDA say zero tolerance needed in pharmacies to stop verbal abuse, intimidation, threats, racist, sexist and physical attacks. April 15, 2020
  • News From The Frontline 13.04.20. April 13, 2020
  • 3,000 fire and rescue personnel in coronavirus isolation as services pay the price for testing fiasco April 13, 2020
  • News From the Frontline April 11, 2020
  • Open letter to Sir Keir Starmer April 10, 2020
  • FIREFIGHTERS TO FIT FACE MASKS AND DELIVER VITAL PPE AND MEDICAL SUPPLIES TO NHS AND CARE STAFF April 10, 2020
  • Why it is important to include HIV status and HIV testing in managing COVID-19 April 10, 2020
  • BHIVA message: HTB COVID-19 special issue: 27 March April 9, 2020
  • Food, Health and the Coronavirus Crisis April 6, 2020
  • A request from Jeremy Corbyn for Urgent Action on the Corona Virus crisis April 3, 2020
  • Unite statement on whistleblowing in the NHS during the coronavirus emergency April 3, 2020
  • PROTECT ALL FRONTLINE HEALTHCARE WORKERS April 1, 2020
  • Charity sector coronavirus financial support package urgently needed, says Unite March 31, 2020
  • Home-visiting health visitors and community nurses need PPE urgently, says Unite March 31, 2020
  • COVID-19 and the NHS—“a national scandal” March 29, 2020
  • Free car parking for NHS staff in England fighting coronavirus needed this week, says Unite March 23, 2020
  • PQs to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on contact tracing and testing March 23, 2020
  • Joint SHA, KONP and HCT petition – NHS Frontline staff make 6 key demands March 21, 2020
  • COVID-19: Fire and rescue services lose hundreds of firefighters to self-isolation, as union calls for priority testing March 20, 2020
  • OPEN LETTER TO THE PRIME MINISTER FROM THE SOCIALIST HEALTH ASSOCIATION March 20, 2020
  • Call for retired nurses and student nurses to join the fight against coronavirus March 19, 2020
  • Maternity Action response to Government guidance on COVID and self-isolation March 17, 2020
  • COVID-19: Firefighters should cease non-essential interactions with the public, union says March 16, 2020
  • CROI 2020: Special session on COVID-19 March 11, 2020
  • COVID-19 Coronavirus: a Socialist Health Association response. March 4, 2020

Links to other websites and documents

Kings College London – coronavirus-whos-most-affected

Please say ‘no’ right now to withdrawal of routine NHS funding to 31 tests, treatments and medical procedures!

Allyson Pollock website

All Party Parliamentary Group on Coronavirus – Evidence submission website

DOCTORSINUNITE – open letter to the Prime Minister

Kent Community Health – Kent health campaigners to host ‘Crush Corona’ online meeting

The BMJ – Greg Dropkin. Testing has grossly underestimated Covid-19 cumulative cases

The BMJ – Getting back on track: control of covid-19 outbreaks in the community

Independent Sage website home page

Queen Mary University of London – Convidence UK data signup page.

Health Service Journal ( HSJ ) – coronavirus page – All the latest news – free to view during the Covid-19 crisis.

Scientists for Labour – BAME & Covid-19

Left Food Forward – Johnson declares war on charity

KONP -Covid-19 Shambles: 11 Reasons why “guided by science” claim is lie

Covid-19 is a pandemic – not a terrorism threat. So where’s the public health response?

LeftFootForward – EXCLUSIVE: Loan firm accused of profiting off NHS brand

Article on LabourList by John Spellar MP for Warley and a member of the West Midlands SHA Branch

Coronavirus: Acting earlier would have saved lives, says Sage member – BBC news

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/21/johnson-forced-to-drop-nhs-surcharge-for-migrant-health-workers

The Association of Directors of Public Health (UK) – Statement of Principles – COVID-19: Contact Tracing

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/coronavirus-uk-care-homes-mps-hospitals-deaths-a9522006.html

The Guardian -Agency staff were spreading Covid-19 between care homes, PHE found in April

Covid-19: why is the UK government ignoring WHO’s advice?

Covid-19: why we need a national health and social care service

Covid19 enquiry summary 15052020 – HealthWatch Sheffield

Strategy for a Pandemic: The UK and COVID-Lawrence Freedman

Members petition to close China’s wet markets to stop the next pandemic. Dr R.L.Symonds

Healthier Scotland – SHA Scotland newsletter – COVOD-19

Don’t allow the price of drugs to soar:

NHS: Beware false prophets:

Brexit, and spectre of NHS US sell-off:

Deep cuts operation threatens NHS:

Phone app that could destroy our GP system:

Health Campaigns Together – Home page

Fighting COVID: International Lessons and Warnings – Webinar registration

www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/08/public-health-directors-take-charge-covid-19-testing-care-homes

www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/07/revealed-the-secret-report-that-gave-ministers-warning-of-care-home-coronavirus-crisis?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

www.theguardian.com/society/2020/may/08/creeping-privatisation-of-nhs-is-hampering-our-covid-19-response

NHS Volunteer Responders Poster for printing and displaying in Public places. – final-rvs-nhsvolres-postertemplate-v2-1008

ICNARC Report on 196 Patients Critically ill with COVID-19

The Argus – coronavirus suspected outbreak oaklands nursing home hove

WHAT EXACTLY IS THE GOVERNMENT STRATEGY FOR COVID-19, AND IS IT RIGHT?

One chance at birth. Protect maternity services in the crisis.

KONP : Coronavirus pandemic: ten ways the government is making it worse

KONP  Facebook

BYLINE Times – Behind Closed Doors

Covid-19: call for fast-track registration of refugee doctors in UK

Discover Society – THE SOCIAL SECURITY RESPONSE TO COVID-19: READ THE SMALL PRINT – Mark Simpson.

Welsh Food Alliance 2009

Disability Rights UK

Open Democracy -Protect the NHS’ must not be another excuse to blame patients

CambridgeCore blog – Country responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Coronavirus: End the Hostile Environment to Fight the Pandemic

NICE guideline [NG163]– COVID-19 rapid guideline: managing symptoms (including at the end of life) in the community

Our World in Data – Coronavirus Pandemic ( COVID-19 )

Citizens TV – The COVID report

Irish Department of Health – COVID-19 report

Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic – confirmed cases

Liverpool University – Coronavirus web page

Local Government FIRST – COVID-19: councils on the frontline

Mortality attributable to delayed lockdown – medRxiv

COVID-19 UK Lockdown Forecasts and R0 | medRxiv

Alex Scot-Samuel – my attempt to get the government to begin to manage COVID-19 ‘as if public health mattered’;  ( starts 42 minutes in )

WHO COVID-19 Database launches new search interface

Emerald Publishing Group – free COVID19 related research across multiple disciplines across Sociology

Women and Equality Committee inquiry and call for evidence – COVID-19 and the response – impact on those with protected characteristics.

The government of the day – nhsManagers.net

CamdenNewJournal- Home page

Institute for Government- Lifting lockdown – exit strategy document

Open Democracy – dangerous call centres

Open Democracy – Business as usual.

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) – Home page

OCED – Combatting COVID-19’s effect on children

Silver Voices

Official Government article and documents

Gov-UK Sage covid19 reports

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-review-of-disparities-in-risks-and-outcomes

Public Health England – Vaccine Update – PHE_11652_VU_307_April_2020

COVID-19-response-primary-care-and-community-health-support-care-home-residents

Scientific advisory group for emergencies ( SAGE ) coronavirus covid-19 response

NHS Volunteer Responders information for health professionals 31 March 2020, Version 1

Prioritisation of community health services – what work stops and what doesn’t

ONS- Coronavirus and the social impacts on Great Britain: 9 April 2020

COVID-19 – Isolating Patients – official CMO MD letter to GP’s 

www.parliament.uk- Answers to Rosie Cooper’s questions have been supplied.

 

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