Medact July Newsletter 2020

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1 August 2020 — Medact

We kicked off July with the launch of our new report on the Prevent counter-extremism policy in healthcare, and there’s been lots more activity since!

Across our groups, Bristol and Oxford had successful reboot online meetings after taking some time out in recent months, and Brighton are putting plans in place for theirs, while Sheffield have been talking with MPs about access to healthcare on the radio and our newest group in the East Midlands hosted their first meetings.

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The NHS: Some good news

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22 July 2020 — The Lowdown

Some good news: the NHS has successfully lifted its hospital occupancy to pre-COVID levels despite the current challenges, according to figures revealed by the Lowdown.

This week too Sarah Jane Downing writes in the Lowdown about her personal campaign to improve the safety of hospitals and we analyse what steps should be taken after several damning inquiries into hospital failures.

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NHS Consultant Says Staff Are Being Silenced Over COVID-19

July 16, 2020January 11, 2022Leave a comment

11 July 2020 — The Bernician

Here lies an anonymous statement from an A&E consultant in a major hospital in Surrey, in relation to the criminal gagging of all levels of NHS staff, who have been threatened that they will lose their jobs if the speak out about the COVID-1984 scamdemic.
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False Positives: the Prevent counter-extremism policy in healthcare

July 2, 2020July 2, 2020Leave a comment

2 July 2020 — Medact

False Positives: the Prevent counter-extremism policy in healthcare is a new Medact report, written by Medact Research Manager Dr. Hilary Aked.

The report examines the implementation and impacts of the Prevent duty in the NHS, looking at the interaction between the duty and other professional duties. It analyses and gives a breakdown of the figures relating to the number of referrals to Prevent across a number of NHS Trusts, discussing the mental health and racialised implications of the duty. The report concludes with key recommendations to both Government and medical bodies based on the findings.

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NHS: Decisions with a cost

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24 June 2020 — The Lowdown

Evidence-based journalism and research on the NHS to create change.

Here are three issues from this week’s Lowdown: A&Es are being closed as a temporary measure, but often in areas where NHS leaders have been trying to permanently close them in the face of strong public objections. (2) How residents in care homes and their carers were left unprotected. (3) Private hospitals are being set up to help with huge NHS waiting lists, but who will benefit and what does the NHS need?

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Tory MP: Student nurses ‘not deemed to be providing a service’

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23rd June 2020 — True Publica

Tory MP: Student nurses ‘not deemed to be providing a service’

TruePublica Editor: This government is a constant source of amazement nowadays. They are now being sued by doctors for not providing PPE, families for the deaths of elderly parents, sons and daughters who have seen front line key workers in mortuaries and for handing out multiple £muti-million contracts to dodgy outfits who have failed to deliver. And this is just their handling of the pandemic. There’s so much more corruption and dodgy dealing going on it’s becoming the new norm. Boris Johson’s government is now immersed in a pool of malfeasance, nepotism and the fraud of taxpayers. It is run by technocrats obsessed with data surveillance, focus groups and public relations. One day, unless it’s too late, they might realise that good governance is what they are paid for.

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Fresh concerns over privacy and profit in NHS Covid data deals

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19 June 2020 — Open Democracy

Documents released to openDemocracy suggest tech firms will profit from controversial deals – and that government gave misleading assurances.

Mary Fitzgerald headshot in circle, small

Mary Fitzgerald / Caroline Molloy

Health Secretary Matt Hancock at the press briefing

Health Secretary Matt Hancock at the press briefing, 18th June – PA Images

Documents obtained by openDemocracy suggest the UK government has misled the public about how it is protecting the privacy of millions of NHS users in its major Covid-19 data deals – and about how the controversial tech firms involved stand to profit in the long term.

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NHS and Racism: Deeds not words

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10 June 2020 — The Lowdown

Evidence-based journalism and research on the NHS to create change.

Report after report has told us about systemic racism in the NHS and in national policy, the government must address it.
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The Lowdown: What’s the limit on care now?

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28 May 2020 — The Lowdown

The NHS Support Federation

This week we can reveal that almost a billion pounds worth of debt is weighing down local commissioners as they start to plan care for the next year – with 7 million patients now on growing waiting lists. This week, we also follow-up on the under the radar plans to bring in major NHS changes without proper public scrutiny, look at the mental health services that are crying out for better support and publish a call to nationalise care homes.

Please share our content and do let us know if you have a story you think we should cover from your area.

Thank you for your support.

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Into the heart of the NHS – an American backed spy programme at the centre of Brexit

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28 May 2020 — True Publica

By Rob Woodward: Palantir is a special ops company. It is considered at best as a controversial and highly opaque company that has long sought to sell governments an unmatched power to sift and exploit information of any kind for any purpose. Its billionaire owner Peter Thiel, the co-founder of PayPal, through Palantir has worked for years to boost the global dragnet of the NSA and its international partners and was in fact co-created with American spies.

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The Covid Nazification Of The National Health Service

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26 May 2020 — The Truth Barrier

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For The NHS At The London Summer Olympics 2012

Dr Kevin P Corbett MSc PhD

The deadly coordinated command-and-control known in 1930s Germany as Gleichschaltung was the key characteristic of 1930s totalitarian domination of German society. This process was later termed by historians as ‘Nazification’. Since January 2020, the United Kingdom (UK) government has similarly introduced a system of coordinated command and control over all aspects of its National Health Service (NHS). The aim is to bring the NHS into line with its ‘Covid-19’ contagion propaganda. This is providing an industrial-scale means for exerting mechanical and biological power over the population, as well as over the occupational lives of all UK health care professionals (HCPs).

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How to make a crisis far, far, worse

May 11, 2020January 11, 20222 Comments

11 May 2020 — Dr Malcolm Kendrick

Dr. Malcolm Kendrick

I was asked by Russia Today to write an op-ed on what had been happening to me in my work over the last couple of months. It has appeared on their website https://www.rt.com/op-ed/488075-nhs-made-covid-19-crisis-worse/ This is what I wrote:

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NHS ordered to hand over security keys of NHS data to GCHQ

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1 May 2020 — True Publica

NHS ordered to hand over security keys of NHS data to GCHQ

By Rob Woodward – TruePublica: Britain’s NHS has become the latest target for big tech to stick its money funnel into and harvest our most personal and private data. It was bad enough that the state illegally and secretly stole our privacy, captured our secrets, recorded our conversations, filmed our private moments, took images of our children and invited in the biggest crooks on the planet to exploit the swag. But now, there’s a plan to capitalise, abuse, manipulate and profit from our physical and mental vulnerabilities.

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COVID-19 exposes the weakness of Brexit

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30 April 2020 — True Publica

By TruePublica: There’s an irony being played out – a cruel one really. The COVID-19 crisis has unearthed some stark truths about how our country should be governed. One of those truths was just how important our key workers really are. Right now, the most dangerous job and most dangerous place in the country to practice it is to be a frontline medic in a hospital. This is closely followed by all other key workers that keeps the infrastructure of daily life moving. It is only in the face of a crisis that threatens us all do we remember this.

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BBC Panorama exposes government responsibility for UK health worker deaths

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29 April 2020– Origin: WSWS

By Thomas Scripps

Monday’s investigation by BBC’s Panorama, “Has the Government Failed the NHS?” was a staggering indictment of the Conservative government’s failure to provide health workers with personal protective equipment (PPE).

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Coronavirus Fact-Check #4: “Why are so many healthcare workers dying?”

April 27, 2020January 11, 2022Leave a comment

27 April 2020 — Off Guardian

Media reports paint a picture of healthcare workers being hit very hard by the pandemic, but the statistics suggest otherwise

The deaths of doctors, nurses and other medical workers has been a major talking point since the pandemic began.

It started in Italy, where a website was set up listing the deaths of doctors who “died on the frontlines”.

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The Anti-lockdown Strategy

April 22, 2020January 11, 2022Leave a comment

21 April 2020 — Dr Malcolm Kendrick

by Dr. Malcolm Kendrick

Unfortunately, it seems that COVID-19 has infected everyone involved in healthcare management and turned their brains into useless mush.

Lockdown has two main purposes. One, to limit the spread of the virus. Two, and most important, to protect the elderly and infirm from infection – as these are the people most likely to become very ill, end up in hospital, and often die. [In my view, if we had any sense, we would lockdown/protect the elderly, and let everyone else get on with their lives].

However, the hospitals themselves have another policy. Which is to discharge the elderly unwell patients with COVID directly back into the community, and care homes. Where they can spread the virus widely amongst the most vulnerable.

This, believe it or not, is NHS policy. Still.

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The Lancet: “When this is all over the NHS England board should resign in their entirety”

April 16, 2020January 11, 2022Leave a comment

16 April 2020 — True Publica

The Editor in Chief of The Lancet, Richard Horton, is incandescent with fury over the way the government has failed to correctly and properly manage the COVID-19 crisis. The following paragraphs clearly demonstrate that frustration and anger and that the world’s oldest, and best known general medical journal has every intention of keeping up the pressure on the government to save lives and then ask questions when the crisis has subsided.

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15 April 2020: The Dirty War on the NHS — Live Q&A TONIGHT 8:30pm (UK time)

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15 April 2020 — John Pilger

Tonight, there will be a live Q&A with two of the film’s main contributors — Professor Allyson Pollock and Dr John Lister, hosted by Simran Hans (film critic at the Observer) at 8.30pm (UK time), which will be beamed live to your homes via Youtube, Twitter, Facebook and Curzon Home Cinema.

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