Covid: isolation pay, ventilation, PPE, testing still needed!
Under the guise of “Living with Covid”, and at a time when a new variant (how consequential, no-one knows) is spreading, NHS England has watered down its already inadequate infection prevention and control (IPC) advice. This puts both NHS workers and patients at unnecessary risk of harm and undermines the public health effort. Far from learning the lessons of the pandemic, NHS managers are reverting to the pre-Covid status quo. For the first few years of the pandemic, NHS England advised that Trusts should ensure that all workers, including bank and subcontracted workers, could isolate on full...