COVID-19 vaccine rollout in disability residential accommodation sits at 4pc, as comments labelled ‘cruel’ – ABC News

In the UK persons with Learning Disabilities were also not treated with dignity and respect, but this situation in Australia is even worse, especially the comments from those who should know better.

But it is not just in the UK and Australia, but a Worldwide problem for persons with Learning Disabilities, for they are not second or even third class citizens, which this treatment appears to indicate. They have as much right as any others to be treated with equality and in many respects even more so.

I am disgusted with the Australian authotities and if I was an Australian I would be ashamed to advise anyone I was.

Source: COVID-19 vaccine rollout in disability residential accommodation sits at 4pc, as comments labelled ‘cruel’ – ABC News

Nasal Sprays Are Part Of The Fight Against Covid-19. Here’s How | HuffPost UK Life

For children and those who are averse to needles nasal sprays may be the only or best way to provide some protection against COVID-19, but are they really effective.

Taffix has been on the market for sometime and if it is effective why is it not being authorised and used as an alternative to the injection. Have any the claims been substantiated by any recognised medical authority. The claim ‘authorised for marketing’ is not a medical based authorisation. So are the claims medically based.

I do not know, but do wish to be advised.

Others, such as, SaNOtize is currently being researched at the Ashford and St Peters NHS Foundation Trust and the possible outcomes look to be promising.

I would welcome a fully medically authorised nasal spray, especially for my own adult daughter who is needle averse and has severe learning disabilities and autism.

 

Source: Nasal Sprays Are Part Of The Fight Against Covid-19. Here’s How | HuffPost UK Life

English care homes ‘sitting ducks’ as GPs refuse Covid vaccine at infected sites | Coronavirus | The Guardian

So, according to this article some GPs are ignoring a NHS directive to provide COVID-19 vaccinations to all residents and staff in care homes, if there are any positive COVID-19 residents there.

Unfortunately the NHS can only advise GPs to enter and not insist, as all GPs and their practices are independent  organisations and run their own practices how they wish.

The practices undertake to do work for the NHS, but all persons in the practice are employed by the practice and not the NHS.

This is a throwback to when the NHS was created in 1948 as then, GPs and Dentists were refusing to enter the NHS as they were reluctant to lose their private status. To this the Government of the day, stated that their private status could be maintained, if they did contract to do NHS work and this remains the status quo.

Now, of course the current GPs are stalwarts of the NHS and are against any forms of privatisation, when they are acting, in some way, as a private organisation themselves.

This, in practice, normally works well, but can bring anomalies as with GPs refusing to enter Care Homes.

However, there are other instances were this comes into conflict with NHS directives, one being the delivery of Annual Health Checks to persons with Learning Disabilities, where some practice do them in a fashion while others to a good standard. This is but one another instance, but there will be others.

Source: English care homes ‘sitting ducks’ as GPs refuse Covid vaccine at infected sites | Coronavirus | The Guardian