The Department of Health rejected medical advice about providing NHS staff with certain protective equipment.

The Department of Health rejected medical advice about providing NHS staff with certain protective equipment during an influenza pandemic because stockpiling it would be too expensive, the Guardian can reveal. 

Documents show officials working under the former health secretary Jeremy Hunt told medical advisers three years ago to "reconsider" a formal recommendation that eye protection should be provided to all healthcare professionals who have close contact with pandemic influenza patients. 

The expert advice was watered down after an "economic assessment" found a recommendation about providing visors or safety glasses to all hospital, ambulance and social care staff who have close contact with pandemic influenza patients would "substantially increase" the costs of stockpiling. 

The documents may help explain a shortage of protective gear in the NHS that is hampering efforts to manage the Covid-19 virus pandemic.

These haggard faces could belong to you or me

They have no need of our help

So do not tell me

These haggard faces could belong to you or me

Should life have dealt a different hand

We need to see them for who they really are

Chancers and scroungers

Layabouts and loungers

With bombs up their sleeves

Cut-throats and thieves

They are not

Welcome here

We should make them

Go back to where they came from

They cannot

Share our food

Share our homes

Share our countries

Instead let us

Build a wall to keep them out

It is not okay to say

These are people just like us

A place should only belong to those who are born there

Do not be so stupid to think that

The world can be looked at another way

(now read from bottom to top)

BHP

SCAMS - they are about - humans taking advantage of people in these difficult times

Awareness of other in times of change/stress/outside forces

Covid-19: Urgent message from UN Secretary General

Covid-19: Urgent message from UN Secretary General

Our world faces a common enemy: COVID-19. 

The virus does not care about nationality or ethnicity, faction or faith. It attacks all, relentlessly. 

Meanwhile, armed conflict rages on around the world. 

The most vulnerable — women and children, people with disabilities, the marginalized and the displaced — pay the highest price. 

They are also at the highest risk of suffering devastating losses from COVID-19. 

Let’s not forget that in war-ravaged countries, health systems have collapsed. 

Health professionals, already few in number, have often been targeted. 

Refugees and others displaced by violent conflict are doubly vulnerable. 

The fury of the virus illustrates the folly of war. 

That is why today, I am calling for an immediate global ceasefire in all corners of the world. 

Join the call for an immediate global ceasefire. 

It is time to put armed conflict on lockdown and focus together on the true fight of our lives. 

To warring parties, I say: 

Pull back from hostilities. 

Put aside mistrust and animosity. 

Silence the guns; stop the artillery; end the airstrikes. 

This is crucial… 

To help create corridors for life-saving aid. 

To open precious windows for diplomacy. 

To bring hope to places among the most vulnerable to COVID-19. 

Let us take inspiration from coalitions and dialogue slowly taking shape among rival parties in some parts to enable joint approaches to COVID-19. But we need much more. 

End the sickness of war and fight the disease that is ravaging our world. 

It starts by stopping the fighting everywhere. Now. 

That is what our human family needs, now more than ever. 

- UN Secretary General António Guterres  

BHP

An extract from a great Guardian article on Joe Wicks.

 His mother was 17 when she had his brother, 

19 when she had Joe; 

his father was in and out of rehab for drug addiction. 

"There was a lot of shouting, a lot of doors slammed, 

we didn't sit down and have dinner together." 

And yet, he says: 

"One thing I had more than anything, 

I had love and support from my mum and dad. 

My mum used to say: 

"I don't care if you become a dustman or a doctor, 

you can be who you want."' 

It is a powerful and unusual stance, 

and it means ...............  he really gets imperfection - 

human frailty, too much sugar, not enough lunges - 

he gets that you can make Poor choices 

without being a bad human being, 

he is palpably nonJudgmental, 

without ever saying; 

"I'm not here to judge you." 

I think viewers can smell that, at any age ..........

BHP 

How a little girl was profoundly touched.

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Never lend a £1

55 years of living / working with young people in hostels 

I learned many things. 

1 Never lend a £1 when asked - 
but 
ONLY give 

because that young person will spend the rest of her/his life avoiding me which shatters any hard fought relationship. 

Entering a helping relationship can be painstakingly slow without any £1 setback.

BHP

🅱🅴🅰🆄🆃🅸🅵🆄🅻 beyond isolation ............ I love this music The Call -I still Believe VIDEO