“If you are in England and your local hospital or GP surgery is still pressuring people to wear masks, please make them aware of this with a quick email or letter based on our template below.
Here’s how:
First, find the contact details for your local NHS Trust Chief executive (or search online contact details for your local GP surgery if you prefer to contact them, instead):
Find the email for your local NHS Trust Chief Executive here
Second, use our template or write your own message along these lines:
I was astonished to read that NHS England is now justifying guidance that encourages masking in healthcare settings with a computer modelling study literally labelled ‘should not be used to inform clinical practice’ on page 1 (Link: https://thecritic.co.uk/theres-no-case-for-mask-mandates/).
There has never been any good evidence for masking but this must take the biscuit.
Masking is not a benign intervention, and many of the negative consequences of masking are especially problematic in healthcare settings, including: impaired communication between staff and service users; the aggravation of respiratory problems; the re-traumatising of those with histories of physical and sexual abuse; and the increased risk of falls for the elderly due to the restriction of lower peripheral vision.
There is no requirement for any healthcare settings to continue with forced masking. I am therefore contacting you to seek your rationale for continuing to pressure service users to wear masks while all other community venues and indeed many healthcare settings have progressed towards a mask-free normality?”
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