{"id":4379,"date":"2024-01-25T01:22:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T06:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=4379"},"modified":"2024-01-25T02:38:44","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T07:38:44","slug":"the-nhs-sold-out-its-staff-doctors-whose-lives-were-devastated-by-long-covid-to-sue-health-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/the-nhs-sold-out-its-staff-doctors-whose-lives-were-devastated-by-long-covid-to-sue-health-service\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The NHS sold out its staff\u2019: Doctors whose lives were devastated by long COVID to sue health service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of doctors are planning to sue the NHS over claims inadequate PPE on the frontline has left them with long COVID, disabled, and in financial ruin.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Kelly Fearnley, 37, was working on a COVID ward at Bradford Royal Infirmary in November 2020 when she caught coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>More than three years later, the effects of long COVID mean she is still unable to work. After episodes of violent shakes, hallucinations, and a resting heart rate more than double the average, she was diagnosed with limbic encephalitis &#8211; inflammation of parts of the brain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of doctors are planning to sue the NHS over claims inadequate PPE on the frontline has left them with long COVID, disabled, and in financial ruin.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Kelly Fearnley, 37, was working on a COVID ward at Bradford Royal Infirmary in November 2020 when she caught coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>More than three years later, the effects of long COVID mean she is still unable to work. After episodes of violent shakes, hallucinations, and a resting heart rate more than double the average, she was diagnosed with limbic encephalitis &#8211; inflammation of parts of the brain.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/the-nhs-sold-out-its-staff-doctors-whose-lives-were-devastated-by-long-covid-to-sue-health-service\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018The NHS sold out its staff\u2019: Doctors whose lives were devastated by long COVID to sue health service<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[82,18,405,389,284,11,867,14,50],"class_list":["post-4379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-court-case","tag-covid-19","tag-europe","tag-healthcare-workers","tag-labour-rights","tag-long-covid","tag-long-covid-doctors-for-action","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-united-kingdom","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4380,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4379\/revisions\/4380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}