NHS staff forbidden from speaking out publicly about coronavirus

[Northerner]

Healthcare professionals are being silenced and threatened with disciplinary action for speaking out about their work during the coronavirus outbreak, the Guardian can reveal.

Many NHS staff are increasingly concerned that their ability to share stories about their work is being restricted by a clampdown on speaking out publicly.

It follows reports of doctors and nurses being gagged by hospitals and other NHS bodies from speaking out about widespread shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE). Tactics have included threatening emails, the possibility of disciplinary action, and some people even being sent home from work.

While there could be some logic to hospitals wanting to stop scaremongering when communications departments are overloaded with work at a busy time, many staff feel they are being blocked from highlighting their work during the pandemic.

NHS staff forbidden from speaking out publicly about coronavirus

Draconian measures prevent some healthcare professions discussing their work during pandemic

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[Davein]

These brave souls are risking their own lives on a daily basis and have the right to speak out. No doubt those trying to gag them are sitting comfortably in a plush office protected from the dangers these guys face.
The milestone of 100 doctors dying in Italy has reportedly been reached, I'm sure it's one that we in this country do not want to achieve.

 

[mikeyB]

Those without protective equipment should refuse to work. It contravenes just about every health and safety rule in employment law. Of course, such laws are pan European, and are one of the reasons why we are leaving Europe. It’s called “red tape”. We haven’t yet got ourselves out of such laws.

A strike would sharpen a few minds, if you can find any in the current bunch of morons in the cabinet.

 

[mikeydt1]

i worked in a large hospital and part of the job required me to work in the mortuary. we were bound over but to be honest the jobs in hospital can be so bad at times that you need to confide or it is a case of loosing marbles.