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The Inquiry called for clean air in healthcare. Six months on, where is it?
Baroness Hallett told the NHS to prioritise clean air. Six months on, the government’s response doesn’t mention it – Lara Wong on how an Inquiry finding can simply disappear.
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Why are the media still asking the wrong question about schools during the pandemic?
Lewis Goodall asked whether school closures were ‘a price worth paying’. Lara Wong argues the question itself leaves Clinically Vulnerable children out of the picture.
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Hidden in the new school allergy guidance is a major victory for clean air
New allergy safety guidance for schools quietly acknowledges what triggers attacks in the first place – and that is a real win for clean air in classrooms.
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You helped change voting accessibility. Thank you!
Members told us what happened at polling stations. Two years on, the Electoral Commission has recognised Clinically Vulnerable voters for the first time. Thank you.
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You helped change voting guidance. Now help us check it’s working.
Our second Voting Accessibility Audit is open for the 2026 local elections – five minutes of your time tells us whether the new guidance is working.
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Covid Inquiry Module 4, vaccines and therapeutics report: “A success story, yes. But for whom?”
Six years after setting up CVF as a worried science teacher, Lara Wong gave evidence under oath. She reflects on what the Module 4 report means for our households.
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Covid Inquiry Module 3, healthcare report: ‘We came masked. We changed minds’
A CO₂ monitor held up in a hearing room, a masked witness box and years of members’ evidence: how CVF helped change the Inquiry’s findings on infection control.
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’Flu treatments exist – but many at risk have not been told about them!
‘I didn’t know I qualified.’ ’Flu antivirals only work within 48 hours – and too many people at risk are finding out about them after the window has closed.
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“I just wanted to vote safely”: How Clinically Vulnerable voters have changed national guidance
Andrea did everything right at the polling station and was still told to remove her mask. Her story, and others like it, changed national guidance.
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MPs Call for Covid Vaccine Access for Clinically Vulnerable People
After months of campaigning, Labour MPs have called for a rapid review of JCVI eligibility and free Covid vaccination for all Clinically Vulnerable people.
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A Preventable Winter Crisis: Why Clinically Vulnerable People Need Your Help
Millions of Clinically Vulnerable people discovered this week that they no longer qualify for an NHS Covid vaccine – no letter, no announcement. Here’s why it matters.
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Forgotten Children: Lasting Harms to Children in Clinically Vulnerable Families
Our new report brings together national survey data and family testimony on children growing up in Clinically Vulnerable households – 80% were persistently absent from school in 2021–22.
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‘If she’s so scared of Covid, she should just stay at home!’
A teenager from Northern Ireland on what it was like to go through secondary school while protecting a Clinically Vulnerable little sister.
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Covid Inquiry Children’s Module: Impact on Forgotten Clinically Vulnerable Families
Children were told schools were safe. For those living with someone at high risk, that meant an impossible choice – and the Inquiry’s Children’s Module must not forget them.
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Protect Clinically Vulnerable People #KeepCovidBoosters
From autumn 2025 the NHS Covid booster is being withdrawn from millions of people at higher risk – including many once told to shield. Here is what it means and what you can do.
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“Learning to Live with Covid” Didn’t Result in Any Learning
Three years on from ‘Learning to Live with Covid’, little has changed in workplaces, schools or hospitals – and for Clinically Vulnerable people it has become an equality issue.
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How Clinically Vulnerable Families Were Left Behind
Most people got their freedoms back after ‘Freedom Day’. The Inquiry’s Module 4 has laid bare why, for Clinically Vulnerable Families, that restoration never came.
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A Testing Search #Access2Antivirals
A positive test, a five-day window for antivirals and a trail of pharmacies that had never heard of the scheme. One member’s search for a lateral flow test.
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My interviews #MaskDiscrimination
After twelve years in the classroom, a teacher explains why bullying and ableism over wearing a mask left no choice but to leave the profession.
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#MyMaskMyVote – Voter ID Rules Potentially Risks Lives
Voter ID rules mean masked voters can be asked to unmask at the polling station. Use our template letter to ask your MP for safer checks.
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PETITION Protect the NHS and All Healthcare : Require #MasksInHealthcare
Sign and share our petition calling for FFP2 masks to be required in all healthcare settings, protecting patients and staff alike.
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CAMPAIGN FOR SAFE HEALTHCARE
Resources built with The Covid Pledge, Doctors in Unite, the Hazards Campaign and Independent SAGE to help you request safer care.
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Covid-19 Pledge
Launched with Independent SAGE, the BMA and a coalition of unions: three simple steps employers can take to keep workplaces safe.
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