Long Covid SOS and the #longcovidgroups aren’t involved in Module 5 of the #CovidInquiry as it focuses on PPE procurement, not healthcare impacts.
However, we remain engaged in the wider inquiry, particularly on government decision-making & #LongCovid care.
#ppescandal
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We are disappointed, and concerned that the interim recommendations made by #LongCovidGroups and other Core Participants to reduce risk have not been accepted.
Please see the response from the COVID Inquiry.
covid19.public-inquiry.uk/documents/ru...
#LongCovidKids #LongCovid #CovidInquiry
Thank you Anna-Louise Marsh-Rees from Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice Cymru, for your impactful evidence at the UK #CovidInquiry this morning and for your kind words. 🙏
We will keep pushing in our work on #LongCovid support, advocacy, research and education.
#LongCovidGroups
This morning at the UK #CovidInquiry we’re due to hear from:
🔵 Kevin Rowan - TUC
🔵 Rozanne Foyer - STUC
🔵 Dr Lisa Ritchie OBE (National Deputy Director of Infection Prevention & Control, NHS England)
#LongCovid
#WeNeedAnswers
#LongCovidGroups
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Image of Sarah Hannett KC standing behind a desk with a computer screen in front of her. On screen subtitles read “even now to preventing long covid there is not treatment for”
🚨Part of opening submission from #LongCovidGroups’ #CovidInquiry Barrister Sarah Hannett KC:
“Healthcare system has not committed even now to preventing #LongCovid. There is no treatment… only way to avoid it is to prevent #Covid19 & yet practitioners, patients & public are not adequately warned”
Group of people standing outside the Covid Inquiry including two wearing long Covid Support tops. Various banners are being held included one bearing the Long Covid Support logo and website www.longcovid.org, one saying LONG COVID RUINS LIVES We need answers, one saying Long Covid SOS and one saying Long Covid Kids.
📣 Lunch break at the #covidinquiry and the #LongCovidGroups stand outside in solidarity.
#WeNeedAnswers
#LongCovid
#Covid_19
@longcovidkids.bsky.social @longcovidsos.bsky.social
🚨UK #CovidInquiry today: Simon Case - Cabinet Secretary.
One of our Founding Trustees will be there to watch, some of our other charity members will watch on a live link & liaise with #LongCovidGroups’ legal team.
Public link with 3 min delay: youtube.com/@UKCovid-19I...
#LongCovid
Woman in a room speaking into a microphone with several people in the background sat at desks with laptops. Subtitles on the screenshot say ‘covid and the varying methods of support offered by hospitals’
🚨At the UK #CovidInquiry, Jacqueline Carey KC on statements from 22 hospitals:
“common themes are emerging…responses reveal the numbers of workers suffering from #LongCovid & the varying methods of support offered by hospitals for staff with Long Covid”
#LongCovidGroups
Three woman outside a building, two standing (one wearing a Long Covid Support top) and one (also wearing a Long Covid Support top) in a motorised wheelchair. There is a sign next to them saying UK Covid-19 Inquiry Hearing Centre. The two women standing are wearing face masks.
📣Today is the Module 3 Prelim. Hearing at the UK #CovidInquiry.
#LongCovidGroups are again working together as Core Participants.
From our charity our amazing Founding Trustee @joda.bsky.social and incredible charity Members Claire Hastie and Maddy are attending!
#LongCovid
#LongCovidRuinsLives
2/2. Reply the #LongCovidGroups had received from Maria Caulfield MP ⬇️
And link to our letter sent to PM Rishi Sunak.
#LongCovid
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🧵📣 1/2 The #LongCovidGroups have come together again to respond to Maria Caulfield MP’s wholly inadequate reply to our letter to PM Rishi Sunak in Dec. last year.
“You advise that it is not usual practice to ring-fence research funding, but this is not a usual situation”
#LongCovid
#LongCovidGroups
@longcovidsos.bsky.social
@longcovidkids.bsky.social
#LongCovidGroups
@longcovidkids.bsky.social
@longcovidsos.bsky.social
📣 Our #LongCovidGroups Barrister Mr. Anthony Metzer KC commences our closing statement at Module 2 of the UK Covid Inquiry;
“Our Clients are angry.
They have been disbelieved, dismissed and ignored.”
#LongCovid
#ItCouldHappenToYou
@longcovidkids.bsky.social
@longcovidsos.bsky.social
🚨At UK Covid Inquiry today are Module 2 closing statements, including from #LongCovidGroups’ Legal Team.
This is the press area outside this morning… guess they’ve had their headlines.
The silence is deafening.
#LongCovid
#ItCouldHappenToYou
@longcovidkids.bsky.social
@longcovidsos.bsky.social
2/2 Please support our #LongCovidGroups letter that we delivered to Downing Street last week!
#LongCovid
#ItCouldHappenToYou
@longcovidkids.bsky.social
@longcovidsos.bsky.social
➡️ Link: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ur...
1/2 ♥️ Another busy day at the #CovidInquiry, we are all shattered!
Closing statement for the #LongCovidGroups due later this week. We will come together again & will continue to push for:
🔴 Dedicated research funding
🔵 Treatment trials
🟢 #LongCovid awareness campaigns
💚 At #CovidInquiryUK the #LongCovidGroups push for answers, along with our fantastic legal team!
Thank you to all attending in person & working away behind the scenes (including on social media! 😉) ❤️
Exhausted we may be but we will not stop!
#LongCovid
#ItCouldHappenToYou
#LongCovidGroups
@longcovidkids.bsky.social
@longcovidsos.bsky.social
www.longcovidgroups.org
🚨Tomorrow, 1030am at the UK Covid Inquiry:
🔵 PM Rishi Sunak
Last week we delivered our letter to No. 10 & sent our digi-van around London!
Tomorrow we will be listening again!
Support our letter ➡️ you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ur...
#LongCovid
#LongCovidGroups
💚Another exhausting day with the #covidinquiryUK but again the #LongCovidGroups and other organisations make a stand!
A few photos from today…
#LongCovid
#ItCouldHappenToYou
#BorisTheLiar
@longcovidkids.bsky.social
@longcovidsos.bsky.social
📣🚨 Let us know if you #SpotTheVan!!
Our #LongCovidGroups’ digi-van is in central London raising public awareness on #LongCovid.
🤳Take a photo if you see it and tag us!
#ItCouldHappenToYou
#covidinquiryUK
@longcovidkids.bsky.social @longcovidsos.bsky.social
📣As Former PM Boris Johnson gives evidence at the UK Covid Inquiry:
Our Founding Trustee Natalie Rogers gives a statement on behalf of the #LongCovidGroups:
“Evidence heard confirmed #LongCovid has been Sidelined, Disbelieved and Ignored”
@longcovidkids.bsky.social
@longcovidsos.bsky.social
🚨📩Today’s the day we hand-deliver our letter to No.10!
We need:
♦️Dedicated research funding
♦️Treatment trials
♦️Public #LongCovid awareness campaigns
Help us reach 3000 signatures!
➡️ ✍️Sign here: bit.ly/46Hjjn1
#LongCovidGroups
#ItCouldHappenToYou
📣SIGN #LongCovidGroups’ LETTER TO NO. 10
➡️ Here: bit.ly/46Hjjn1
Approx. 2m in UK with debilitating #LongCovid.
❗️There is No Cure!
❗️Last dedicated research funding from Government was in 2021 - minimal focus on treatment!
#ResearchLongCovid
#ItCouldHappenToYou
@longcovidsupport.bsky.social
