Tag: Hospitals

A lobby group of healthcare workers has warned against the decision to remove face mask guidance in healthcare settings, saying withdrawing it is "playing Russian roulette" with people's welfare.

Over 2,500 doctors, scientists and healthcare professionals are among over 10,000 people supporting an open letter calling on NHS bosses to end the mask mandates that are still in force in many U.K. hospitals.

Wearing surgical masks in a hospital made no discernible difference to reducing hospital-acquired Covid infections, a study has found, casting further doubt on masking policies deployed throughout the pandemic.

More than half of the public is unhappy with the NHS, polling shows, with a doubling in dissatisfaction in just two years, and warnings of a “tipping point” from which it is hard to recover.

Dr. Eashwarran Kohilathas was on the NHS frontline during the pandemic but quit when he saw the harm they were doing and now writes to bring truth and healing instead.

Hospital patients are being denied visits from loved ones by trusts using outdated Covid restrictions, as analysis reveals 70% of NHS trusts still have pandemic visitor restrictions in place.

NHS reform does not mean merely increasing patients per session or cutting maternity leave. It means a fundamental rebalancing of power away from doctors and managers and towards the public who pay for medical care.

Over 70 years have passed since the NHS was established; if the best minds in organisational thinking have been unable to come up with solutions in that time, perhaps there are none, writes Dr Andrew Bamji.

"By the latter half of 2022 it seemed we had turned a corner on masks," writes Jill Evans. "Only a deviant minority persisted with wearing them. But as we enter a new year, this return to sanity is under threat."

NHS mask mandates are arbitrary, depending more on where you happen to live than any actual science. Yet they don't seem to be going away, writes Paul Stevens.