I don’t often get angry, but I feel really rattled tonight. EveryDoctor has devoted a significant portion of our limited resource to fighting the government in 4 legal cases since last May. When we took them on initially, my husband was working on the frontline in ICU, and our...
doctor members were experiencing unimaginable horrors. Taking these cases on was a leap at a time when we were already fighting for adequate supplies, fighting for really basic protections for NHS staff. It was a big deal to us and our members; and frankly at times it has been...
Re-traumatising for members to have to confront these PPE cases; to confront the knowledge that while they soldiered on in bin bags, VIPs were being handed billions in public money, often for unsuitable PPE.

Despite the knowledge that we are co-claimants being in the public...
domain, and our own efforts at dispersing this information, we are being ignored consistently by the media outlets covering these cases. And this weekend we’ve been described by one journalist as ‘silent partners’ in the cases.

We are not silent partners. We are the doctors...
Who trawled our dossiers of evidence to create statements as co-claimants. We are the doctors who understand what really happened on the frontline. And we’re bringing these cases because they matter. Because we hope that if we win, that NHS staff will never face this again...
that a pandemic plan will be created and adhered to and that none of our friends and colleagues will ever, ever die needlessly in this way again.

NHS staff matter. Please cover their stories. I have given up my medical career to fight for NHS staff. We will not be silenced.
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