Some staff at Whipps Cross, and in the social care sector, are being asked to work in extremely dangerous conditions.
The Trades Council is organising a Petition To Bart’s Health Trust to demand adequate Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to keep them safe.
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On Tuesday evening we held an informal Zoom WFTC. 12 delegates joined in, and 2 wanted to, but couldn’t connect.
So here a few notes for your information.
Len Hockey Unite Sec for Bart’s Trust led off with a graphic description of the situation in Whipps Cross. He outlined how 30 years of neo-liberal polices had left the hospital in a woeful position to react to this crisis, with privatisation, outsourcing, marketization of everything, and the casualization of jobs.
His main worry was the scarcity of PPE. Although PPE is arriving, it’s not necessarily reaching some wards. Every discipline is scrambling around. Some days the full kit is there, other days it’s not; some workers are, understandably, holding onto “expired” masks for several days. He compared it to a game of musical chairs, and sometimes you are the one left standing!
All staff, though never flinching in their duty of care, are worried for their patients, for themselves, and for their families.… Read on ...