NHS GP Dr Helen Westwood, a member of HART, has written a letter to her MP Sir Graham Brady expressing her concerns about the possible Government plans for mandatory vaccination of healthcare workers and others. She previously wrote to him at the end of April and received a reply from Vaccines Minister Nadhim Zahawi that we published on Lockdown Sceptics offering the paper-thin reassurance that the U.K. “currently operates a system of informed consent for vaccinations”. “Why does he need to use the word ‘currently’?” she asked. “Are there plans for mandatory vaccination in future?” There were indeed, and she is not impressed – to the point of calling for Health Secretary Matt Hancock to be shown the door before he does any more damage. Here is her letter in full.
Dear Sir Graham,
I refer to my earlier correspondence dated March 2nd and April 26th regarding the concerns I have about the COVID-19 vaccination program.
I am grateful to you for raising these concerns with the Minister for COVID-19 Vaccine Deployment. Sadly Mr Zahawi seems to be either unwilling or unable to respond to my questions. Perhaps he is just delaying until the vaccine rollout has reached the whole adult population as it is due to imminently.
Mr Zahawi said in his letter to you that “the UK currently operates a system of informed consent for vaccinations”. Clearly the current proposals to make vaccinations compulsory for care home workers and possibly frontline NHS workers is completely counter to this. If a medical intervention is mandated for one group in society why not others? What about visitors to care homes? Delivery drivers? Shop workers? The list will go on and on.
I would like to draw your attention again to Article 6 of the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights. It states that “any preventive, diagnostic and therapeutic medical intervention is only to be carried out with the prior, free and informed consent of the person concerned, based on adequate information. The consent should, where appropriate, be express and may be withdrawn by the person concerned at any time and for any reason without disadvantage or prejudice”. If an individual is being coerced into undergoing vaccination, through fear of losing their livelihood, then they are not giving “free and informed consent”. In effect, the person administering the vaccine in such circumstances is committing the criminal offence of Assault and Battery. We know that the pharmaceutical companies have been granted legal indemnity by the Government but what indemnity does the vaccinator have in this situation?
In my opinion to ask anyone to undergo a medical intervention for the benefit of others is profoundly unethical. Population immunity, achieved through high vaccine take-up, is a by-product rather than the primary reason for immunising an individual. This ethical problem is particularly pertinent to the arguments given for rolling the program out to children, but is also relevant to the majority of healthy working-age adults. The mortality risk from COVID-19 in this cohort is lower than that for seasonal influenza. People are being persuaded to have these vaccines to protect society at large. Why is nobody in Government paying attention to the significant morbidity and mortality being reported on the Yellow Card system in relation to the administration of the vaccines? Young healthy people are being exposed to risks, both known and unknown, in taking these vaccines yet have little to gain in terms of personal benefit. Dr Tess Lawrie wrote an open letter to MHRA Chief Executive Dr June Raine saying that “the MHRA now has more than enough evidence on the Yellow Card system to declare the COVID-19 vaccines unsafe for use in humans”. At the very least we should be pausing to review the data before coercing young care home workers into having this vaccine when the results of the phase 3 trials are not yet known or understood.In my discussions with patients who have undergone vaccination I have come to realise that many are unaware that these vaccines do not yet have full marketing authorisation. Sadly, the vaccine trials have now been compromised by being unblinded and control arm participants being offered the active drug. Given that these vaccines are still in their experimental phase, surely point 1 of the Nuremberg code applies: the voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential. How is this in any way compatible with mandatory vaccination?
According to Dominic Cummings, the Prime Minister referred to Matt Hancock as “fucking hopeless”. Having heard the Health Secretary say that there is a “material difference” in the duty of care owed by the state to those who have not yet been offered the vaccine compared to those that have not taken up the offer of vaccination, I would go as far as to say he is dangerous and a menace. He is not fit for public office and needs to be removed from his post before he inflicts further harm on the people of this country. The GMC’s Good Medical Practice guidance states that Doctors must “treat patients and colleagues fairly and without discrimination“. I do not think there is an exception to this based on vaccination status. Similarly the NHS constitution says that “the NHS provides a comprehensive service, available to all” and that staff has a “duty not to discriminate against patients or staff and to adhere to…human rights legislation”. With regard to patients it says “you have the right to accept or refuse treatment that is offered to you, and not to be given any…treatment unless you have given valid consent”. Perhaps the Health Secretary ought to familiarise himself with these documents.
Having read my comments you will not be surprised to learn that I still do not intend to take this vaccine currently. I refuse to be bullied into undergoing a medical intervention against my will. It is against everything I would advocate for my patients. With record waiting lists in the NHS it would seem to me to be unwise to risk losing a proportion of the workforce by forging ahead with plans for making COVID-19 vaccination compulsory.
Yours sincerely,
Dr Helen Westwood
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I would also echo baboons comments on China and highlight this is likely why they are currently turning off bitcoin mining operations.
Interesting to read about the surge in Cornish cases. I live here and first thing Monday morning all the media was advising everyone in Cornwall to get tested twice in the week. Obviously all done with the normal panic tones, zero balance or common sense.
As per normal my family have all ignored it. But others I work with – large open plan office with about 30 in it every day – suddenly they have children told to stay home from college as someone in the class has a positive, others who had been to bars, told to isolate etc. None of them ill and none of them saying they knew anyone who was ill.
Result is bars, pubs and restaurants closing yet again, not as anyone was ill, just because someone had a positive test!!!! Madness.
Then in the news this week, suddenly the main symptoms have changed to the same as hayfever!!! Handy coincidence!!!! Sneeze and run for your test!!! Idiots.
Personally I have had my two jabs, I don’t agree with it but I want a holiday abroad and I want my life back. Last night I went to a restaurant and off out today to a… Read more »
Thank you Dr Helen Westwood.
Not only that idiot but also Whitty Vallance and the rest of SAGE
@baboon, so are you suggesting that a number of the acting government are in on this China thing? If so, how many? It must be a lot mustn’t it, because someone close to the government who hasn’t been let in on the party would be questioning it? Why hasn’t Cummins spilled the beans? So how big is the group of elite that are driving this mindf#ck?
I am against blanket vaccinations. I won’t be vaccinated. I have had covid and have anti bodies, 7 months on. I am begging anyone who’ll listen not to have the vaccines until more data is in, but it is mainly falling on deaf ears… I think my 29 year old daughter will bow to pressure, and she’s had covid too, so will have antibodies. I am desperately worried about the vaccines being rolled out to children. But I just cannot see how what you are saying makes any rational sense.
The vaccines are experimental, and I am not convinced they are safe, but I honestly can’t believe they are a bio weapon of population control. There seems to me far less James Bond type super villain ways to achieve change than this.… Read more »
I would suggest that Dr Westwood be appointed Health Secretary instead of the overgrown schoolboy who is the incompetent current incumbent.
All of this destruction would easily have been aborted early on had the doctors working in the NHS alone simply told Govt that they weren’t going to cooperate in vaccination.
Any physician who’s administered these materials to any healthy person under 60 deserves to be struck off.
Hats off to Dr Westwood. Where the hell are her peers?
I’m puzzled why you’re implying the vaccine should be administered to anyone over 60. As a healthy 61 year old with a robust immune system I’ve no intention of compromising my health by having this so called vaccine. As a climber, wild swimmer and long distance walker I don’t think I’d survive if any of the activities which give my life quality rather than quantity were curtailed due to a life changing adverse reaction to AZ or Pfizer. Admittedly the possibility long term affects of Covid 19 could incapacitate me but having worked everyday in a frontline service, not worn a face mask or taken any of the so called precautionary measures I’d imagine that if I was going to succumb to the ‘virus’ it would have happened by now.
Yes, I’m a wild swimmer too – the sea, solo – done it for many, many years. As I’m always on my own, with no one to bail me out, there’s no way I could do this with any sort of vascular condition. So no jab for me.
Then again doing this sort of swimming – as I suppose with climbing – you have to be adept at ascertaining risk.
and doing that kind of swimming is very very good for your immune system – keep doing it TJN – I take my hat off to you!
They are all around, but either ignored or censored. One of my colleagues is having his worl-respected research lab shut down on the trumped-up charge that the University’s hallowed ‘reputation’ would be damaged if the public knew that it employed an ‘anti-vaxxer’ on the staff.
His ‘crime’? He found that some traditional (i.e., non-Covid19) vaccines contain a substance that appeared to be involved in both Alzheimer’s Disease and some forms of autism, and dared to report his highly creditable research to the public. So essential research into AD is being terminated in order to protect a minor University’s supposed reputation.
Others have warned repeatedly that adequate Vitamin D levels are critical in supporting the regulation of the raging immune reaction against Covid infection, especially for older people. Yet their appeals for at least sound consideration of this potential prophylaxis are rejected because they are a threat to the Covax Conspiracy. The same applies to the use of Ivermectin, despite the remarkable results of its introduction in parts of India and elsewhere..
Thase brave souls who dare to raise their voices in concern and warning are all traumatized by the way that the politicians – or rather, their pseudo-expert ‘advisers’ –… Read more »
Any physician who’s administered these materials to any healthy person under 60 deserves to be struck off.
I agree completely. I wrote in effect to my doctor’s surgery along these lines back in early May, especially in regard to the horrendous proposals to poison children. The practice manager assures me she sent sent a copy to all the clinical staff.
In my view we should be writing to our doctors as often as our MPs.
Doubtless I’m now on a DNR notice.
She’s an excellent lady and not far from where we live. We will write to her Sir Graham (again) and indeed to another reader we too shall write to our MP Esther McVey again I shall post it myself through the office letterbox. I shall keep on trying to push everyone should do the same. Vote for that party again – never again shall I never!
McVey knows what’s going on because I gave her a personal briefing.
Other than voting against the freedom day extension, there is no evidence that she’s done anything with the verifiable information I gave her.
Well said, that woman…
Treatment is currently witheld for everyone, vaccinated or not.. Matt Wanksock’s implied threat is hollow. A bit like the travel threat. The double jabbers thought they would be free to travel. They aren’t and will not be. Neither the vaccinated or the unvaccinated can travel freely. Likewise medical treatment.. same boat, except the vaccinated have some potential concerns floating inside their boodies.
I like your name for hand on cock it’s great!
Nowadays I often wake up, look at the news and descend no a terrible mood. Today’s been no exception.
But having I read Dr Westwood’s letter I’ve cheered up. Well done that lady, and (the as yet too few) others in the profession like her.
Keep positive write to your MP!
I’ve drafted an absolutely appalling letter to my MP, accusing him of being a traitor to humanity for supporting these measures. I don’t know whether I should send such invective, although I believe I will. Writing with logical argument to him doesn’t even get a response. In my eyes, such MPs are indeed traitors to humanity.
Yes, send it. Remind them that compliance is complicity.
I hope there will be a reckoning.
We’ll be needing an equivalent of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre for decades after this.
I’ve been struggling with the phrase ‘traitor to humanity’. Is it just a gratuitous insult? Would I say it to his face – I wouldn’t write anything I wouldn’t say to someone’s face.
So in my letter I’ve tried to justify what I mean:
‘Traitor to humanity’ is an emotive and serious charge. Well let us look at was has happened. Healthy people incarcerated in their homes. Prevented from travelling. Prevented from earning a living. Their businesses and livelihoods destroyed. Forced to cover their faces. Denied health care. Allowed to wallow in pain and die from preventable causes. Stopped from seeing friends and relatives. Prevented from protesting. Old people left in care homes on their own for months on end, denied visits and human contact. Old people left to die alone. Even stories of children being left to die alone. Women giving birth on their own, while forced to wear a mask. Children denied education, and then forced to wear masks when they are in school. The full resources of the State dedicated to terrorising the public into compliance. And looking to the future we have the coercion and eventually effective mandation of experimental gene therapies. The list of… Read more »
I have written several e mails asking questions and raising issues about restrictions and receive stock replies but then my MP is in the Shadow Cabinet. None of them want to be in the same boat as their constituents – they know the iceberg on the horizon is a very large one indeed.
I did that some time ago but he’s Neil O’ Brien.
I’d love it if he was my MP. I’d be writing to him all the time! Showing what a wanker he is.
I salute Dr. Westwood. If only more of her profession would show her courage and wake the f up!!
Good old Dr. Helen Westwood, one of the heroines of this shambles.
And I’ll say now, if I hear that she is forced to give up her profession because of the likes of useless hancock, I am likely to rule out supporting such parties in future at least until reparations are made in full to their victims.
I know what you mean but she ain’t old!
I too send my heartfelt best wishes to Dr Westwood.
Matt Hancock has crossed a line and is beyond the pale – he is now stipulating that clinicians should throw aside their ethics in favour of following his forceful dictats.
Wrt vaccinations he first did this last December wrt the NHS Behaviour Change Unit document which included guidance to clinicians on how to coerce, whoops, ‘encourage’ people to have vaccination against covid. This document itemised that a barrier to getting other clinicians onside were their ‘professional ethics’, see item 4.3 on penultimate page, let alone the rest of the coercing pressurising tactics included in this shocking document. Vaccination do and donts by audience cohorts (covidtruths.co.uk) It’s a terrible day when a doctor’s professional ethics are seen as a problem……
Since then we’ve heard Hancock’s edict that he will seek to compel care home workers and clinicians to have the experimental jab against their free consent. This is despite Council of Europe, Nuremberg, NHS and GMC guidance to the contrary, ie not to compel and respecting the capacitous patient’s right to choose. GMC guidance includes: “If a patient can’t make a decision freely, they won’t be able to consent,” and “You must… Read more »
My error, should’ve been ‘f***ing hopeless Matt Hancock’
…..indeed hopeless is increasingly how the outlook is, amid the distortions and coercions now endorsed top-down in healthcare.
GPs have come this far. I see them continuing…
Cheer for this Lady!
Brave woman. 👏
Dr Helen Westwood is doing yeoman’s work and I appreciated her persistence in the face of a system that doesn’t want to know.
Her last letter referenced ADE. I note on twitter there is chatter amongst scientists that there may be confirmations of ADE in Indonesia.
https://twitter.com/veryvirology/status/1405918647059554314?s=20
Also:
https://twitter.com/robinmonotti2/status/1405899359313661955
It looks like Joel Smalley (a data modeller I really trust) has checked the numbers, so I think we can take this to the bank.
Thanks for this 👍
Yes he’s great Joel is
Check if the two groups are the same age.
Unlike flu, COVID risks rise steeply with age.
There are all sorts of reasons why Hancock should be sacked, but he won’t be. The big boy globalists have his back. If they didn’t, he would have been booted out long ago.
Sadly agree but he’s a danger to us all
So well done Dr Westwood. A copy of your letter will be in my MPs inbox tomorrow morning!
Us too I’ll post ours by hand on this one I’m sick of emailing
Hancock’s mother should be charged with child abuse. That face has been slapped a few times.
But not enough times.
His mother should be charged with child neglect because she clearly didn’t knock any sense or decency in to the animal.
In my discussions with patients who have undergone vaccination I have come to realise that many are unaware that these vaccines do not yet have full marketing authorisation.
This is so true – I have yet to speak to anyone who has had the jab who was fully aware that these are trial vaccines. Not only are they completely unaware of this fact (which i think in many cases if they knew this they would probably have had second thoughts) but many I speak to also think that the jab is mandatory … that when they get their letter in the post to visit their local GP for their jab that they MUST go – I point out to then that its an OFFER not an ORDER – they don’t have to accept the offer to have the jab if they didn’t want to. Lastly I would say that 99.9% of the people I speak to think that the vaccine means they will never get coronavirus – they seriously beleive that they will never get covid again once they have had their jabs- they don’t even bother to read the leaflet given to them after the jab that clearly states… Read more »
Absolutely so if they haven’t been provided with all that information prior to receiving their jab they cannot give ‘informed consent’. Because of this those giving these jabs will be the fall guys when it all hits the fan.
Yes. A friend of a friend recently been to a vax centre and spoken to the Nurse in charge. The nurse in charge apparently said a few things to my acquaintance: while they are offering the vaccines to all in the country, not every vaccine is always taken, or always necessary, for each individual depending on their age &/or health profile and many other factors – fair enough, good start.
The nurse also said, when questioned about the temporary authorisation bit which they had put in writing at the centre, that the vaccines had fully completed all clinical trials – NOT so good! I’m no expert but that surely flies in the face of NHS ethics, and the principle of informed consent. Maybe venturing into the area of criminal negligence. IDK.
(the person left without taking the vacks)
The nurse may be parroting what she has been told. Not a defence under law but we have to work with people u til they prove themselves evil.
The ignorance and naivety spreads much further than just the vaccine rollout, but yes, the ‘invitation’ certainly isn’t worded as such with the words BOOK YOUR VACCINE NOW emblazened across the top. As with much else, the government and the NHS know full well that most people will fall for it.
Calling it a vaccine is a lie. Traditionally a vaccine provides immunity. (There will be statistical outliers). These experimental Gene therapies don’t even claim to do that. They are not vaccines and should not be called such.
Correct. Even more people don’t know that than that they are experimental and have an emergency approvsl only.
Even Eric Clapton thought that the AZ one was a traditional one and he also went for it because it was British.
And he is one of the smarter people.
People should be offered (or indeed have to have) a thorough discussion with a well-informed and honest GP before participating in these drugs trials. Failure to ensure this by the government arguably amounts to a crime against humanity.
Well said Dr Westwood.
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, a hush now please, as we dim the lights and open the drapes to reveal to you … a thing so rare … and so very, very precious ……… a REAL human being …..
There are more culprits to this than ministers.
Without media cheerleaders and the now utilitarian brainwashed mob, none of this would fly.
But the people who will load most guilt upon their shoulders are the complicit discriminating business leaders and the judges who rule in their and their discriminstions favour.
We can but hope, agitate, sue, support these lawsuits and hold out, so that they will land in the dock for that one day.
The special place in hell is reserved and assured for them anyway.
“The U.K. “currently operates a system of informed consent for vaccinations”. “Why does he need to use the word ‘currently’?” she asked. “Are there plans for mandatory vaccination in future?”
When the people accepted the invasive test requirements and the mandatory masking, they signed away their unalienable individual right of bodily autonomy, with more of that and other rights being taken away from them assured to be forthcoming.
Not totally sure of this but vaccination should be a contract between the vaccinator and the person being vaccinated. Under Common Law the contract needs to be signed or agreed by both parties or it is invalid. Or are they going to pin us down forcibly?Can anyone enlighten me please?
You quote the Commmon Law. I watched a lawyer who said that regardless of any Statute there is the fundamental and Common Law right to not be harmed. Not one person authorising or administering these vaccines can say you will not be harmed. Indeed if anyone puts the MHRA results under their nose there is a high chance of actually being harmed. So in essence these vaccines can never be properly lawfully be mandated. They can attempt to change Statute Law. To do so they would have to go through the motions of passing primary legislation and not sneak through the back door like the Corona Act. Even if Statute Law changes, this does not override your fundamental Common law Rights. Also there is the criminal offences of assault and battery. Again given that these vaccines have a good chance of causing you harm there is also a case for claiming these if anyone attempts to hold you down.
I am receiving so many texts and calls inviting me for one of these vaccines (despite repeatedly declining) that I am going to assume that in reality they do not have sufficient uptake for “their agenda”… Others have spelled out… Read more »
Thank you. That is very useful and more or less backs up what I thought. I am looking into Common Law at the moment , it may be useful at some stage.
Thank you Dr Helen Westwood. Excellent letter.
Takes a lot of courage to speak out in the current climate.
“Population immunity, achieved through high vaccine take-up, is a by-product rather than the primary reason for immunising an individual.”
Amen. And it usually takes a few hundred years in the few instances ehere that was achieved, and then still by primarily by naturally obtained immunity, aka infection.
A very good letter, but I really wish she’d not asked this question:
I’d only have raised this point if I was going to ask if politicians will be mandated to be jabbed with the poison.
Indeed…clearly a possibility of this is mandatory vaccinations for all
Not a possibility – 100% stone cold certainty. The doctor bravely confronts the Elephant in the room. This is a vitally important point as people need to be clear that if this abhorrent policy is initiated it will affect everyone within a remarkably short space of time – and it won’t stop with two doses of this particular “vaccine”.
I agree, but it’s the wording that is the point of contention. It invites the respondent to agree that other groups of society should also be ‘vaccinated’.
Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights.
Article 6 should be our protection, but article 27 is their loophole.
No – the UK has neither signed nor ratified the Declaration, it’s too inconvenient. You can’t get a bigger ‘loophole’ than that.
What a brave woman. Thank you.