Covid-19: Charities call for clear advice after “utter mess” of shielding texts
Covid-19: Charities call for clear advice after “utter mess” of shielding texts
复制标题
Covid-19：屏蔽文本“一团糟”后慈善机构呼吁明确建议
作者：
I. Torjesen
主要的医疗保健慈善机构已致函英国政府，要求在错误沟通造成“彻底混乱”后，给予那些因最有可能受到新冠肺炎影响而被告知要屏蔽的人“明确、一致的建议”。
英国肝脏信托基金会，英国哮喘基金会和英国肺脏基金会是签署公开信的近50个慈善机构之一，该公开信说，这些患者需要知道一旦屏蔽解除，会发生什么以及如何保护自己。信中说，更广泛的弱势群体也需要建议，他们没有被要求“屏蔽”，但随着封锁解除，他们将面临更大的风险。
在此之前，英国患有严重哮喘、肺病和癌症等疾病的患者报告说，他们收到短信，通知他们在全科医生不知情的情况下被从官方屏蔽名单中删除。这一问题反映了3月份实施封锁时的情况，1当时一些风险很高的患者没有收到屏蔽信息，而成千上万不需要屏蔽的其他患者，包括一些已故患者，2确实收到了这些信息。
从Gov.uk网站发送的官方文本.
Leading healthcare charities have written to the UK government asking for people who have been told to shield because they are most at risk from the effects of covid-19 to be given “clear, consistent advice” after the “utter mess” caused by incorrect communications.
The British Liver Trust, Asthma UK, and the British Lung Foundation are among nearly 50 charities that signed the open letter, which said that these patients needed to know what to expect and how to protect themselves once shielding was lifted. The wider group of vulnerable people who had not been asked to “shield” but would be at greater risk as lockdown was lifted also needed advice, the letter said.
The call for clarity follows reports from patients in England with conditions such as severe asthma, lung disease, and cancer who said that they had received text messages informing them that they had been removed from the official shielding list without their GP’s knowledge. The problem mirrors that seen when lockdown was imposed in March,1 when some patients at very high risk did not receive messages to shield, while tens of thousands of others who did not need to shield, including some deceased patients,2 did receive them.3
The official texts sent from the Gov.uk website on …