Lib Dem Health and Social Care 🔶

✅@WHO has at last changed its guidance on masks & #COVID19 for health and care staff. ✅WHO now in line with US CDC & Europe. ❓Will UK govt. now change guidance as has long been recommended by @theRCN & @TheBMA & give staff FFP2/3 masks?

Unsurprisingly Johnson held off introducing further restrictions despite a surging new #COVID19 wave. Johnson’s authority to issue further restrictions before Christmas is damaged by the revelations his government failed to follow previous lockdowns & social distancing rules.

And it didn't have to be like this.

It didn't need to be this way. 👇

✅ Japan has controlled spread of #COVID delta. ❗️ UK still has well over 40,000 new cases a day, with ICU beds not available post operation for major surgical cases, ambulances queuing to handover patients, & around 1/5th of care home residents not received booster jabs.

❗️ The Health & Social Care white paper won’t fix the staffing the crisis. ✅ A new funding model, with better pay & conditions are needed. 👇 Over 40,000 staff reported lost from social care in 6 months, and likely much worse! @NuffieldTrust

❗️Tory NHS Reservists? ✅ If we had long term workforce planning & above inflation pay rises, not claps, there wouldn’t be a sudden panic. ❗️ This is a crisis engineered by @Conservatives ideology & incompetence. ✅ Let’s fund our NHS properly.

❗️ Nurses in UK are paid relatively poorly compared to colleagues in many in OECD countries.

Here, here!