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When health matters, masks can protect: Elite althetes Astronauts ...and you? Clinically Vulnerable Families

🚀 Space travel +
🏅 Olympic sports

may be reasons to stay well, but... you don't need to be an olympian to value your health.

FFP2/FFP3 (N95/N99) masks are close fitting and can prevent sickness on your holiday, train journey to work... or during a visit to the doctor.

When health matters, masks can protect: Elite althetes Astronauts ...and you? Clinically Vulnerable Families

🚀 Space travel +
🏅 Olympic sports

may be reasons to stay well, but... you don't need to be an olympian to value your health.

FFP2/FFP3 (N95/N99) masks are close fitting and can prevent sickness on your holiday, train journey to work... or during a visit to the doctor.

⚠️ MEETING TOMORROW

Final chance to apply!

12 FEB UK Covid-19 Inquiry CVF Legal team meeting Clinically Vulnerable Families members are invited to our UK Covid-19 Inquiry update 6-7pm Thursday 12th February Slater Gordon Lawyers Doughty Street Chambers

🚨JOIN US ON THURSDAY EVENING!

Join our legal team meeting to discuss our work in advance of the final Covid Inquiry hearings, focused on:

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"The BBC’s sitcom, Can you keep a secret?, dropped amid hospitals declaring critical incidents due to “respiratory viruses”..., depicts a GP with “very very bad health anxiety since Covid”, rocking up in a hazmat suit."

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12 FEB UK Covid-19 Inquiry CVF Legal team meeting Clinically Vulnerable Families members are invited to our UK Covid-19 Inquiry update 6-7pm Thursday 12th February Slater Gordon Lawyers Doughty Street Chambers

🚨JOIN US ON THURSDAY EVENING!

Join our legal team meeting to discuss our work in advance of the final Covid Inquiry hearings, focused on:

👩🏻‍🤝‍👩🏾👫👬 The Impact on Society 👬👫👩🏻‍🤝‍👩🏾

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🇬🇧UK loses measles-free status

This is NOT about the loss of *status*, this is about a very real increase in risk to unvaccinated children and adults.

The other losers are (as always) immunocompromised and otherwise Clinically Vulnerable people.

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UK loses WHO status as measles-free after rise in deaths and fall in jab uptake UN health body says Britain is one of six countries in Europe and central Asia where disease has become re-established

There were 3,681 measles cases in 2024, and 20 deaths from measles in the six years between 2019 and 2025 (the same number as in the 19 years between 1999 and 2018).

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🇬🇧UK loses measles-free status

This is NOT about the loss of *status*, this is about a very real increase in risk to unvaccinated children and adults.

The other losers are (as always) immunocompromised and otherwise Clinically Vulnerable people.

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Let's hope it is! 🤞

University Hospital Southampton (UHS) is trialing a new rapid test that could cut the time to diagnose winter respiratory viral infections from several hours to just a few minutes.

We will be watching the trial outcomes closely - and cheering it on! 📢

We hope that people at higher risk of poor outcomes will benefit from faster answers and safer care.

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www.uhs.nhs.uk/whats-new/pr...

If you are Clinically Vulnerable or immunocompromised, a fast, accurate test can mean quicker treatment and clearer decisions to protect others.

We hope these are also considered as this unit goes into trial.

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Ediphor test - laptop with a white device attached with 4 circle positioned in a square. Tristan Clark (white man with dark hair and preying beard with stethoscope around neck, stripes on his shirt).

🚨Exciting and encouraging news from @uhsft.bsky.social : a trial of a 60-second test to diagnose respiratory infections:

🏵Covid
🌼Flu
🍥RSV

For many people this could be a game-changer!

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Text: You expect safe food You expect clean water Why not *clean air*? Image split vertically 1. Someone preparing food for hospital patients with goves and a hair net. 2. A water purification plant with clean water 3. A giant air filter blowing out clean air Clinically Vulnerable Families logo

“It cost Molly her life.” A teenage cancer patient died after 84 suffered preventable hospital infections.

We demand patient safety:
Food, water and air.

When it’s safe enough for the most vulnerable, it’s safe enough for EVERYONE.

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This tragedy was not unforeseeable.

Dr Christine Peters, a consultant microbiologist, repeatedly warned that conditions at the hospital were unsafe - especially for immunocompromised patients.

Her warnings were ignored.

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THANK YOU!

This tragedy was not unforeseeable.

Dr Christine Peters, a consultant microbiologist, repeatedly warned that conditions at the hospital were unsafe - especially for immunocompromised patients.

Her warnings were ignored.

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Text: You expect safe food You expect clean water Why not *clean air*? Image split vertically 1. Someone preparing food for hospital patients with goves and a hair net. 2. A water purification plant with clean water 3. A giant air filter blowing out clean air Clinically Vulnerable Families logo

“It cost Molly her life.” A teenage cancer patient died after 84 suffered preventable hospital infections.

We demand patient safety:
Food, water and air.

When it’s safe enough for the most vulnerable, it’s safe enough for EVERYONE.

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Clinically Vulnerable people are facing increasing levels of discrimination and ghe BBC needs to stop making the precaution the punchline because real people suffer as a consequence.

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bbc.co.uk/complaints

Please don’t all copy/paste the same complaint.

Same points, different words, and your lived experience.

Numbers do matter here. But so does making it hard to dismiss as “a campaign template”.

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And... if the BBC keeps stonewalling us, the next step is Ofcom.

(There are time windows so you need to escalate ASAP).

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Repeat your ask for concrete actions. For example:

• add an iPlayer note/content warning
• edit the scene on iPlayer
• acknowledge publicly that people raised stigma concerns
• consult Clinically Vulnerable people in future

Otherwise they will just “log it” again.

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You must not exceed 1,000 words.
Include the points that you raised at Stage 1a.

Again, add specifics:
• episode + date + iPlayer/BBC One
• 17 mins
• You can't raise new issues

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Stage 1b: If I'm not satisfied with the reply, what can I do next? If you are dissatisfied with the reply at Stage 1a, please write back to BBC Audience Services, as set out in under 'Where to direct complaints' above, within 20 working days of the date on which you received the response at Stage 1a. If you write after that time, please explain why your complaint is late. Exceptionally, the BBC may still consider your complaint, if it decides there was a good reason for the delay. If the BBC decides not to consider your complaint because it is late, you can ask the Executive Complaints Unit to review that decision. Your complaint should clearly and concisely set out why you remain dissatisfied. It should - not exceed 1,000 words. In exceptional circumstances, longer complaints may be entertained. These should be sent in writing by post, not via the web form, identifying the reasons your complaint exceeds 1,000 words and providing a one-page summary of your complaint; include any reference number provided; include the points that you raised at Stage 1a that you want the BBC to reconsider. The BBC will not consider new points unless, exceptionally, it is necessary to do so in the interests of fairness. If the BBC receives a number of complaints about the same issue, it may apply the steps as set out under the BBC's response at Stage 1 a above.

Investigations by the ECU You must contact the ECU within 20 working days of the date on which you received the response at Stage 1b. If you write after that time, please explain in your letter why your complaint is late. Exceptionally, the ECU may still consider your complaint, if it decides there was a good reason for the delay. The ECU cannot consider editorial complaints which have not been through Stage 1 of the BBC's process. Your complaint should clearly and concisely set out why you remain dissatisfied. It should: not exceed 1,000 words. In exceptional circumstances, longer complaints may be entertained. In that case, however, you should also identify the reasons why your complaint exceeds 1,000 words and provide a one-page summary of your complaint; include the points that you raised at Stage 1b that you want the ECU to reconsider; the ECU will not consider new points unless, exceptionally, it is necessary to do so in the interests of fairness. It is particularly important that you include the above points as they will be the main basis on which the ECU will investigate your complaint. The ECU may also investigate elements of the complaint which, in its judgment, have not been adequately dealt with. If the ECU receives a number of complaints about the same issue, it may apply the steps as set out under the BBC's response at Stage 1 a above.

The ECU will acknowledge your complaint within 5 working days of receiving it. The ECU will investigate your complaint and aim to reply within 20 working days of receiving it, though some complaints take longer than others to investigate. A target of 35 working days applies to those complaints that require longer or more complex investigation. When the ECU investigates your complaint, the people responsible for the content you are complaining about (which may include people outside the BBC, such as independent programme-makers) will usually have the opportunity to see the complaint and respond to the ECU about it. Having investigated your complaint, the BBC then decides whether there has been a breach of the BBC's editorial standards. If there has, the ECU will uphold your complaint, in whole or in part - or, if it believes that enough was done to address the breach of editorial standards before it received your complaint, it may decide that it has been resolved. The ECU's finding will normally be the BBC's final response to your complaint, except for first-party complaints of unfair treatment and infringement of privacy, where you will be invited to comment on the finding. In such cases, the ECU will consider your comments so long as they are received within 10 working days of the date on which the finding was sent to you. If you wish to comment but are unable to do so within that time limit, please give the ECU your reasons for requesting an extension. The finding will include information about how to contact Ofcom if you wish to take your concerns further.

You don’t need an essay. A few sentences is enough:

“Thanks, please escalate this.

Your response talks about ‘offence’ but doesn’t address stigma to Clinically Vulnerable people.

Can you confirm whether this meets BBC editorial standards and what you’ll do about it?”

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Editorial Complaints process An editorial complaint may proceed through the following stages: Stage 1a-initial response. Stage 1b if the complaint progresses further, a response from or on behalf of a BBC manager or a member of the editorial team. 5 The Editorial Guidelines can be seen at: www.bbc.co.uk/guidelines/editorialguidelines See https://www.ofcom.org.uk/tv-radio-and-on-demand/broadcast-codes/broadcast-code 9 Stage 2 if the complaint progresses further, a response from the Executive Complaints Unit (ECU)7. If you are dissatisfied with the response you have received at a lower stage you can ask for it to be considered at the next stage. Details of how to do this are below.

Don’t let this end with a "Stage 1" brush-off.

Reply back and ask them to escalate it properly (stage 1b - BBC manager/ editorial team or 2 - Executive Complaints Unit). Request ECU but there are no guarantees.

Use the word "escalate".

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Doctor wearing PPE but no mask. Face shield. Gloves. Full disposable PPE outfit.

If the punchline is “PPE / precautions = anxious / ridiculous” then people who still need precautions (Clinically Vulnerable people) are the collateral damage.

So it is not about “offence” but creating stigma.

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Can you keep a secret? Image of the cast used by BBC to advertise.

Their response dodges the point.
Because the problem really wasn’t that “I didn’t get the joke”.

The problem is who the joke is aimed at and what it encourages most people to laugh at.

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🚨'Can You Keep a Secret?'. The BBC response is below in full.

In short, it essentially says:
“It’s farcical, sorry we offended you, we’ve noted your complaint.”

BUT if you (like us) aren't unhappy with this response, here is our next move... 🧵

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