David Osborn

The questions weren't put to the AGM.

Now there's a surprise...

The email address to use is given on their website: www.hse.gov.uk/contact/comp...

You may consider copying to your MP and ask them to forward to the relevant Minister, Sir Stephen Timms MP requesting that he instruct HSE CEO to respond to the questions that have been put to her.

Anyone sufficiently motivated may wish to email HSE asking that the questions be answered and published.

I suppose that the 3 questions all tantamount to a complaint:
1) Allowing FRSMs to be called PPE
2) Suppression of RIDDOR in healthcare
3) Offence caused by Mr Brunt's remark.

Just watched the AGM on YouTube.

Somewhat predictably I guess, none of the 3 questions was introduced.

It remains to be seen whether HSE will do as asked i.e. respond after the event.
(Have to say I'm not holding my breath!)

These are questions which deserve answers as they affect so many people.

Thanks

I think I've fixed it now - being a bit of a novice at YouTube I'd disabled 'embedding', not really knowing what I'm doing - could you let me know if all okay now?

Ah - I've been onto youtube and I think I've fixed it.
As you say, there was indeed an option to enable or disable embedding which I had set to NO, i.e. away from the default, so not really knowing what I'm doing!
Could you tell me if it seems to be fixed your end?

Oh dear. No i didn't.
I'm not sure what to do about it.
I put the videos on YouTube with open public read-only access.
I think/hope that if you copy/paste the link into a browser the video will play.
Any advice welcome.
PS it works okay on the dark-side X-twitter...!

Hi Steve
I'm a bit out of my depth here.
I am not very good at 'tech'.
I don't understand why this error message appears. But what ever the reason I think that if you click on the YouTube link it ought to show.

Following from Question 3 above, here we see the HSE Policy Director suggesting that healthcare workers, injured by occupational exposure to Covid-19, may just want some "incredible retribution for what happened to them"

No! Not retribution! They just wanted an official record made of their case.

A text version of these 3 questions can be found at this link: tinyurl.com/4bbjnvb2

Question 3 : youtu.be/63xOrUZMsV4

A question for the HSE Director who gave oral evidence to the Covid Inquiry and made an insensitive and upsetting remark for HCWs who have Long Covid.

Question 2 : youtu.be/XhK4-EU6KnE

A question for the HSE CEO about the woeful under-reporting of HCW disease & death under the RIDDOR Regulations.

This may be of interest to the hundreds of HCWs seriously ill with Long Covid and of particular interest to those involved in litigation

Question 1 : youtu.be/H_K43YC9udc

HSE knew that surgical masks are not PPE but did nothing to stop those spreading misinformation.

May be of interest to any HCW harmed by workplace exposure to and also those who are still in service, being spun a yarn about FRSMs being PPE.

The following are links to the 3 questions (preceded by a short introduction).

These have been recorded on YouTube in case the AGM organisers wish to present the questions personally (though I’m not holding my breath on that)

Introduction :
youtu.be/yJ5ajk4ft2s

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HSE are holding their AGM on 29th July.

I have tabled 3 questions in advance.

These may be of interest to healthcare workers - those still in service and those who were injured by Covid and can no longer work (or are limited as to what they can do).

PS Just noticed that the image in the first item in this thread (Dr Hammond’s article) wasn't very clear to read, so here it is again...

CATA has no political affiliations but had hoped that, following the General Election, maybe the new Government would take the matters of HCW protection and Healthcare Acquired infection seriously. We're still waiting...

We were met with trite comments:
"the safety of our HCWs is our primary concern";

"our experts are continually reviewing the guidance";

(etc ad nauseum)
i.e. the usual copy/paste platitudes rolled out by P.R.

Our technical, scientific and legal contentions were never once properly addressed.

Since the Alliance was formed during the baptism of fire (namely the first wave) by Dr Barry Jones, Kamini Gadhok MBE and colleagues, our representations (pleas) for UK Gov't to just follow the (real) science and provide respiratory protection have repeatedly been stonewalled.

Preparatory letters to the Minister, Ashley Dalton MP, setting out our case and explaining the steps required by the Government to settle the issues will be published here next week, together with her (woefully inadequate) responses.

Dr Phil Hammond reveals in Private Eye that CATA (the Covid Airborne Transmission Alliance) is threatening to take the UK Government to Court for a judicial review.

Pre-action protocols require the parties to attempt to resolve their issues out of Court.

Indeed.

Awful!

bylinetimes.com/2023/04/06/c...

So while you and I were on doorsteps "clapping for healthcare heroes", painting rainbows on windows etc, civil servants were already at work, covertly plotting how to 'pull the rug' from under the feet of our frontline heroes as and when they (foreseeably) would succumb to the disease.

After that meeting, NHS RIDDOR reporting got worse, not better.

Now this is what you do if you are preparing to defend against lawsuits which they probably figured would happen once HCWs realised that the surgical masks (which they were assured would keep them safe) were as useless as a chocolate fireguard.

(aka "the big lie").

The MPs wanted the data to see what impact this awful disease was having on HCWs.

Albon justified her secrecy by claiming the meeting was held under "legal privilege".

HSE CEO (Sarah Albon) refused point blank to reveal what was discussed at that meeting, even to our elected Members of Parliament in the Work & Pensions Select Committee who had instructed her to ensure that NHS and othe health/social care providers properly reported cases.