#UniteFamily send our heartfelt condolences to @KailashChandOBEs loved ones. He was much admired as a tireless champion and defender of a public NHS and will be so much missed.

Unite the union: join a union retweeted: We are shocked and saddened to hear that Prof Kailash Chand OBE FRCGP has passed away. Vice President, former deputy council chair, GPC member and staunch defender of the NHS, his was a life of service to his patients and fellow doctors and all at the BMA will miss him deeply.

Unite the union: join a union retweeted: When China saw high rates of health worker infections, they gave them respiratory protective quipment (RPE), and Chinese health care workers stopped dying. When our HCWs were getting infected and dying, they got claps and called heroes, but no RPE. Over 1,500 UK HCW deaths now.

Enough is really enough. We cannot continue to bury our heads in the sand any longer and pretend that airborne transmission is not a risk everywhere. @DoctorsInUnites chair Dr Jackie Applebee. Demo at 6pm at Dept of Health. #AirborneProtectionNow: unitetheunion.org/news-events/ne

Unite the union: join a union retweeted: Millions of workers are in insecure employment with low pay and few rights and protections. Labour will give all workers security at work by creating a single status of worker for all but the genuinely self-employed, with full rights from day one. theguardian.com/politics/2021/

Doctors in Unite ( @DoctorsInUnite) to hold protest in London today over lack of enhanced PPE for health and social care staff. #AirborneProtectionNow: unitetheunion.org/news-events/ne