Health Secretary Wes Streeting is looking at changing the law regarding compensation for people harmed by Covid vaccines amid concern it doesn’t offer enough support. The Telegraph has the story.
Wes Streeting has written to the wife of a man left with permanent brain damage after having the AstraZeneca jab, saying he has “commissioned officials to work up a number of options” to reform the current vaccine damage payment scheme (VDPS).
The letter, sent last month and seen by the Telegraph, adds that this could include “potential legislative changes”.
Families of those who suffered rare reactions to the Covid AstraZeneca vaccination have criticised the VDPS for its limited compensation and high threshold for qualification.
It comes ahead of next week’s sitting of the Covid Inquiry, which will hear evidence from a group representing those injured and bereaved after the vaccinations.
Mr. Streeting revealed the work was being done in a letter following a meeting with Kate Scott, whose husband was left with a permanent brain injury after developing a blood clot and bleed on the brain after having the AstraZeneca jab in April 2021.
Mrs Scott said the VDPS needed “urgent reform” because people were being rejected for not being “disabled enough”.
She added: “There is no other word for this than ludicrous. If your injury equates to just a 10% change, that’s life-changing for you. It might mean you can’t work anymore.
“The Government needs to remember that people took the AstraZeneca vaccine for the greater good and because they were told it was safe and effective. They need to make sure families have proper support”.
Currently, the VDPS only offers a one-off tax-free payment of £120,000 to people who have been severely injured if they reach the level of 60% “disablement” – which is what the current scheme requires.
Data obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show that as of October last year, 183 out of 188 payouts made by the Government under the VDPS went to recipients of the AstraZeneca vaccine.
The data also reveal that 391 people injured by Covid vaccines have been denied payments because they did not meet the 60% threshold, even though medical assessors said the harm was linked to the jabs.
Claims for payments under the VDPS scheme are assessed by the General Medical Council – registered doctors with at least five years of experience.
The system they use to determine claims has been described as “archaic” because it is seen as lending itself more easily to quantifying amputations rather than neurological injuries, which can be more complex. It is derived from pre-Second World War industrial injuries and war pension schemes.
Victoria Atkins, the previous Health Secretary, had asked officials to draw up options for reforming the programme, amid a large increase in the number of claims. …
It is understood that the Government is considering setting up a bespoke scheme for those suffering from life-changing conditions as a result of a reaction to the jab, similar to the scheme for victims of the infected blood scandal.
Sir Jeremy Wright, the former Attorney General who is also Mr. and Mrs Scott’s MP, also called on the Government to reform the scheme, saying there was a “moral case” to ensure families had sufficient support.
Sir Jeremy, who has attended meetings with the Health Secretary about the issue, said: “We would be brave to claim that this is the last time the Government is going to ask for mass vaccination to take place. If they want people to carry on coming forward for vaccination – and I am sure they do – then it’s important to make it clear that if you are in the tiny unlucky minority where you are injured by a vaccine, then you will be looked after.
“That’s particularly the case when the Government has put so much into persuading people to have the Covid vaccine, along with the scale of the vaccination programme.”
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It’s hard to disagree with those who say Democracy is a sham. Nobody voted for this and yet it’s foisted on us anyway. At least the pro-Pally f-wits in London are prepared to fight for the future they want. Everyone else just sits at home waiting to get shafted some more.
Actually Net Zero was in Labour and Tory manifesto’s. It is just that most people have no clue what is involved for their freedom and their prosperity. ——Most will probably think that there really is a climate crisis and all we need to do is get rid of fossil fuels and use wind and sun and everything will tick along just fine. ———-NOPE. IT WILL NOT
“London councils were the most likely to implement these charges, with responses revealing that at least 20 of the capital’s 32 boroughs have them in place.”
So, although many London councils claim to be against ULEZ they are nevertheless more than happy to screw their own people for not driving the correct car. In other words these sanctimonious so and so’s are lying barstewards who in reality are dancing to the same tune as the Khant.
Not damned bright enough to be aware of their own crude hypocrisy and lies.
A mini dump.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/a-beginners-guide-to-the-great-covid-con-part-5-matt-hancocks-role/
A short but grim read.
As many of us on here have stated Hancock is bang to rights on the Care Home murders – Democide.
And here’s another worthwhile dump:
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/news-you-might-have-missed/
The clue is in the title.
We are being pushed, perhaps purposely, towards pitchfork time! Everyone will have to become a bladerunner!
I’ve been driving around my local area over Xmas with family guests and have noticed a significant increase in both 20 mph zones and surveillance cameras everywhere since the summer. This in a rural area with a p*ss poor bus service and mostly narrow country lanes with few or no footpaths. Oh, and fuel in these parts is 20p/litre more than guests pay at home. Democracy has died, bureaucratic totalitarianism rules.
Green = Red. ———Public policies are strangling us with regulations, mandates and impoverishment with climate the hammer that nails us to the floor. The pathetic excuse that we are in a “climate emergency” is not just a slap in the face to hard pressed families depending on their car. It is 5 uppercuts from Mike Tyson. There is no tyranny worse than the one that terrorises you for your own good as these people never sleep.
Why only concentrate on tailpipe emissions. EV’s are heavier than an equivalent ICE and produce more tyre and road wear, so instead of a clear new diesel, a filthy EV that will have to drive at least 60,000 miles before it is ‘carbon-neutral,’ will be producing micro rubber and plastics from tyres while causing greater road wear. I say penalise EV drivers for their selfish actions.
Rest assured they will have to move onto this soon enough – as more and more people are forced into EVs (or nothing) they’re obviously not going to drop parking charges just like they’re not going to give up fuel duty, so they will come up with some way of ranking EVs also or simply charge everyone sky high rates if they can’t be bothered.
They certainly won’t give up as long as the majority of those that vote tend to vote for establishment parties. No sympathy can be extended to the inconveniences and costs experienced and endured by the unthinking establishment party voter. Apart from the EU referendum the British people haven’t tried boycotting the establishment line by voting for centre Right challenger parties but it is way past time they gave it shot in 2024.
“Councils argue that such charges are need to improve air quality and encourage people to use more sustainable forms of transport”———–The first part of that is dubious and the second requires that this “sustainable transport” is available 24 hours a day to every workplace and back straight to your home which IT IS NOT. —Where is the sustainable bus at 5.30 am to take people right to their place of work? Or at midnight to get home from late shifts or start night shifts? Why are we letting these phony planet savers away with this tyranny? People go out to work and have bought vehicles in good faith with hard earned money only for these eco parasites to come along and tell them they cannot use those vehicles instead of allowing them to come to the end of their natural life and is a diabolical disgrace.