{"id":7737,"date":"2024-12-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-26T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=7737"},"modified":"2024-12-26T01:46:58","modified_gmt":"2024-12-26T06:46:58","slug":"uk-doctors-and-nurses-with-long-covid-to-sue-for-compensation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/uk-doctors-and-nurses-with-long-covid-to-sue-for-compensation\/","title":{"rendered":"UK doctors and nurses with long Covid to sue for compensation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 300 British doctors, nurses and other health workers with long Covid are suing the health service for compensation, saying they were not given proper protection during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>They say their lives have been devastated by a host of severe health complications. Most cannot return to work and many are housebound.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is life-changing. People are really suffering financially. Some are living in poverty,\u201d said nurse Rachel Hext, one of the claimants. \u201cWe\u2019re suing because this is the only way of providing for our futures.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 300 British doctors, nurses and other health workers with long Covid are suing the health service for compensation, saying they were not given proper protection during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>They say their lives have been devastated by a host of severe health complications. Most cannot return to work and many are housebound.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is life-changing. People are really suffering financially. Some are living in poverty,\u201d said nurse Rachel Hext, one of the claimants. \u201cWe\u2019re suing because this is the only way of providing for our futures.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/uk-doctors-and-nurses-with-long-covid-to-sue-for-compensation\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UK doctors and nurses with long Covid to sue 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":[82,18,389,259,284,11,14,50],"class_list":["post-7737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-court-case","tag-covid-19","tag-healthcare-workers","tag-human-rights","tag-labour-rights","tag-long-covid","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-united-kingdom","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7737","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=7737"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7739,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7737\/revisions\/7739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}