{"id":4784,"date":"2024-03-06T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=4784"},"modified":"2024-03-07T01:19:39","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T06:19:39","slug":"long-covid-health-staff-go-to-court-for-compensation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/long-covid-health-staff-go-to-court-for-compensation\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Covid: Health staff go to court for compensation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 70 healthcare workers with long Covid have taken their fight to the High Court to try to sue the NHS and other employers for compensation.<\/p>\n<p>The staff, from England and Wales, believe they first caught Covid at work during the pandemic and say they were not properly protected from the virus.<\/p>\n<p>Many of them say they are left with life-changing disabilities and are likely to lose income as a result.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Health said \u201cthere are lessons to be learnt\u201d from Covid.<\/p>\n<p>The group believe they were not provided with adequate personal protective equipment (PPE) at work, which includes eye protection, gloves, gowns and aprons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 70 healthcare workers with long Covid have taken their fight to the High Court to try to sue the NHS and other employers for compensation.<\/p>\n<p>The staff, from England and Wales, believe they first caught Covid at work during the pandemic and say they were not properly protected from the virus.<\/p>\n<p>Many of them say they are left with life-changing disabilities and are likely to lose income as a result.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Health said \u201cthere are lessons to be learnt\u201d from Covid.<\/p>\n<p>The group believe they were not provided with adequate personal protective equipment (PPE) at work, which includes eye protection, gloves, gowns and aprons.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/long-covid-health-staff-go-to-court-for-compensation\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Long Covid: Health staff go to court for compensation<\/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":[82,18,752,405,259,284,11,245,932,933,14,50,931],"class_list":["post-4784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-court-case","tag-covid-19","tag-england","tag-europe","tag-human-rights","tag-labour-rights","tag-long-covid","tag-n95-respirators","tag-national-health-service","tag-nhs","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-united-kingdom","tag-wales","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4784","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=4784"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4789,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4784\/revisions\/4789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}