The number of people not looking for work is up by over a third (35%) since the pandemic began, and it's still going up. We said it in 2021 and we'll say it again: if you don't control Covid, it will control us.
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Today we are launching Supporting Healthcare Heroes UK - a charity set up to stand shoulder to shoulder with UK healthcare workers living with Long Covid. In this video our Chair, Dr Alison Twycross RN, provides details of what to look out over the next 11 days #CareForThoseWhoCared

Benefits and Work What if there are no specialists? It takes forever for people with #LongCovid , who suffer cognitive problems, energy limitations and struggle with forms, to get seen at all, never mind by a 'specialist'. LC clinics are run by whichever service is tasked with them - or not at all.

The DWP have revealed the draft criteria they will be using to select claimants for the Severe Disability Group, allowing fast-track claims for PIP, ESA and UC without need for lengthy form filling or an assessment. See if you would qualify … benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/fast-trac…

Prevent #LongCovid .

Long Covid Doctors for Action Long Covid SOS 🇺🇦 LongCovidWork 🇺🇦 Long Covid Patient Action Group UK LongCovidNurses&MidwivesUK 💙🌈 #TeamLCNMUK #FBLC Hazards Campaign #CovidIsAirborne #Ventil8Filter Long Covid Support 🌍 Long Covid Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Covid Action Scotland Scottish Healthcare Workers Coalition Covid Women's Voices WalesOnline 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Bond Turner Covid Team Dr Rachel Clarke The BMA The RCN HCSA – the hospital doctors' union Doctors in Unite ***LINK FOR NORTHERN IRELAND***

Pls add your details if you are an NHS healthcare worker who caught #COVID19 at work and have suffered significant injury as a result and are interest to pursue group litigation

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BREAKING: Doctors occupationally exposed to #COVID19 to sue health service

📣 NATIONAL CALL TO ACTION 📣

ALL UK HCW who have been occupationally exposed to #COVID19 & suffered significant injury as a result are invited to join our litigation effort. 👇🏽

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Please note amended website link if you are looking for resources - longcovidwork.wordpress.com

If you had an industrial accident because your employer failed to protect you from a known threat, and you ended up disabled, it would be expected that you'd get compensation. Long Covid shouldn't be any different
Long Covid Support 🌍 🇺🇦 LongCovidWork 🇺🇦 Sarah Weston pwLC #NEIS 🌱🐝🌈🥬🌷🌌

Yet again our European friends are ahead in their support for people with Long Covid. We would like to remind the U.K. Government that in years to come they will be scrutinised on how they cared for their people not just during but after the pandemic. dutchnews.nl/news/2023/03/n…

Meanwhile in the Netherlands: Nurse wins Long Covid compensation case, picks up infection at work - go.shr.lc/3FFNMY7
In the UK, the IIAC recommendation to recognise #Covid19 as occupational disease is yet to be implemented
LongCovidNurses&MidwivesUK 💙🌈 #TeamLCNMUK #FBLC 🇺🇦 LongCovidWork 🇺🇦 Long Covid Support 🌍

Our pre-print -effects of #LongCovid on employment published

Thanks to Daniel Ayoubkhani from Office for National Statistics (ONS) for leading this

An estimated 27,000 working-age adults in the UK were inactive because of their Long Covid symptoms in July 2022

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Prof Nisreen Alwan 🌻

Have you had difficulty accessing help to get into work? Do you feel the forthcoming scrapping of the Work Capability Assessment will impact your chances of working or getting the right support? Would you speak to a journalist? Email [email protected]

👇 raises questions over the differences in geographical levels of #DWP #Sanctions within Jobcentre practices
🤔 Work Coach discretion local/regional office culture drivers?
The sanctions surge: Shining a light on the universal credit sanctions regime ippr.org/research/publi…

Are you an #employer , trade union or H&S rep? Need to know about #ventilation and #COVID19 safe workplaces? Training tomorrow here👇
Long Covid Support 🌍 TUC Education 🇺🇦 LongCovidWork 🇺🇦

Hearing stories of NHS staff being offered 4 wk phased returns after over 2 years off with Long Covid. Reasonable adjustments being denied even with letters from Drs. Occ health giving poor advice. It’s been 3 years! The info is out there! No excuse! #EqualityAct #TribunalsComing

Belated #LongCovidAwarenessDay post: I’m no longer able to work in my field as a radio and podcast producer. I was a late bloomer, but I found something I loved + was good at. On the single best day since I got sicker, I was able to see my oldest friend for an hour.

This needs reading and sharing far and wide. It's an independent guide to how the budget changes for the DWP will affect disabled people and people with long term medical conditions.
Joe Hardy ( Joe Hardy 🇺🇦 🇪🇺♿️🐟 #RightToLove 💙 )

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“Heartless” government reforms that will eventually scrap the “fitness for work” assessment “defy logic” and pose significant risks to sick and disabled people who cannot work, say activists who have fought for years to highlight the test’s fatal flaws.
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