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Editorial: The push on NHS pay paves the way politically Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer alongside NHS staff during a visit to Royal Derby Hospital, on March 4, 2021 IN a welcome foray into class politics, Sir Keir Starmer has centred Labour’s spring offensive on the NHS, as it prepares for the May contest that will see voters choosing candidates in local elections and the Scottish and Welsh Parliaments and the London Assembly. It is a necessary move made more urgent by the success relative in comparison to other capitalist economies of Britain’s vaccination programme which has given Boris Johnson’s government an undeserved chance to prettify its calamitous record. ....
THE government’s Covid-19 guidelines for infection control and personal protective equipment (PPE) for patients and NHS staff are “flawed and need replacing,”according to a study commissioned by the Royal College of Nursing. Experts at London University analysed a literature review underpinning the guidelines, and found that they met just four of 18 criteria they deemed “essential.” Crucially, they say the guidelines fail to consider airborne infection, a key way in which the virus is transmitted and about which much new evidence has emerged. The experts’ conclusion, published today, is that the review provided only a “superficial account” of the available evidence, and so the guidelines were “fundamentally flawed and need replacing.” ....
The government’s shoddy treatment of heroic health workers is disgraceful – and trade unionists will be fighting hard to ensure their vital work is fairly rewarded, says HELEN O’CONNOR ....
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Health Secretary Matt Hancock during a media briefing in Downing Street NEARLY a quarter of a million people have waited over 12 months for NHS treatment as Britain’s health service struggles to contain the coronavirus pandemic. A “world-beating” death rate has seen well over 100,000 British people die from the virus an appalling statistic that entails tens of thousands of needless deaths. By comparison, just 25 have people died from Covid-19 in New Zealand, just 35 in Vietnam. This amounts to a comprehensive failure of government health policy. Britain’s Covid catastrophe is rooted both in government decisions such as the extent and timing of lockdowns, and in longer-term characteristics of the economy such as widespread insecure work. ....