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This is a list of National Health Service (NHS) staff who died from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) after contracting it while working during the 2020 coronavirus pandemic.

Background[edit]

Main article: 2020 coronavirus pandemic in the United Kingdom

The first confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the United Kingdom were on 31 January in York.[1] The number of cases increased rapidly over the following weeks.[2][3] Personal protective equipment (PPE) was needed to keep staff safe from the disease as they treated patients.[4][5] The Government of the United Kingdom made repeated reassurances that there was enough PPE for all NHS staff who needed it, and that they were buying and distributing more.[6][7][8] On a number of occasions, medical colleges, associations and unions reported that NHS staff were not receiving PPE.[9][10][11][7][8][12] Medical staff reported receiving no, expired or inadequate equipment.[13][14][5][15] The British Medical Association warned that medical staff would die without adequate PPE.[16]

Deaths[edit]

Date Name Job Age Location of death References
March 25 Adil El Tayar Doctor (organ transplant consultant) 63 West Middlesex University Hospital, Isleworth, London [17]
March 25 Habib Zaidi Doctor (GP) 76 Southend Hospital, Southend-on-Sea, Essex [17]
March 28 Amged El-Hawrani Doctor (ENT consultant) 55 Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, East Midlands [17]
March 29 Thomas Harvey Nurse (mental health) 57 Home, Upper Clapton, London [17][18]
March 31 Alfa Sa'adu Doctor (locum; former medical director) 68 Whittington Hospital, Upper Holloway, London [17]
April 2 Aimee O’Rourke Nurse 39 Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Hospital, Margate, Kent [17]
April 2 Lynsay Coventry Midwife 54 [19]
April 3 Areema Nasreen Nurse 36 Walsall Manor Hospital, Walsall, West Midlands [17]
April 3 Liz Glanister Nurse Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Liverpool, Merseyside [19]
April 4 Glen Corbin Healthcare assistant (mental health) 59 (Not recorded; Corbin was from Brent, London.) [17]
April 4 John Alagos Nurse 23 Home, Watford, Hertfordshire [17]

See also[edit]



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image icon Conservative Party 2005 general election campaign billboard stating, "It's not racist to impose limits on immigration". Underneath has been graffitied, "Yes it is — you Tory scum". Indymedia UK (2005)[20][21]

The Conservative Party released a campaign poster in the run-up to the 2005 general election displaying the words "Are you thinking what we're thinking?" underneath "It's not racist to impose limits on immigration". Francisco Panizza, contributing to The Oxford Handbook of Populism, provided this as an example of the "boundary-shifting process resulting from the mainstreaming of populist interventions and its impact on the political system", but commented that the poster's sentiments were "still (almost) unsayable" in Britain at this time and that the "not-so-secret message was captured by a defaced poster on which was scribbled: "Yes it is — You Tory SCUM!" and another in which the word "RACISTS" was written above the "CONSERVATIVE" signature".[22]

During an anti-austerity protest following the Conservative victory in the 2015 general election the phrase was graffitied on the Monument to the Women of World War II on Whitehall in London.[23][24][25] The incident was widely reported in the press and led to a court case between far-right columnist for the Mail Online Katie Hopkins and food blogger and anti-poverty campaigner Jack Monroe.[26]: 200–201  Referring to the incident, Hopkins asked Monroe via Twitter, "Scrawled on any memorials recently? Vandalised the memory of those who fought for your freedom?" Monroe sued Hopkins for defamation, winning the case in 2017.[27][28][29] Contrary to Hopkins's defense that her words meant Monroe "was supportitive - politically - of those who had painted the slogan onto the monument", the judge ruled that they would be understood to mean Monroe "condoned and approved of the fact that in the course of an anti-government protest there had been vandalisation by obscene graffiti of the women's war memortial in Whitehall, a monumnet to those who fought for her freedom".[26]: 201–202 

External videos
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Official music video for "Kill Tory Scum (Before They Kill You)", by Killdren
video icon Kill Tory Scum (Before They Kill You), by Killdren (2017)[30]

Killdren, a British electronic punk band, had their set cancelled from the Glastonbury Festival lineup in 2019 following controversy around their song "Kill Tory Scum (Before They Kill You)".[31][32][33][34] The band told The Sunday Times, "The piece would not exist if the destructive and violent policies of the Tory party hadn't taken such a devastating toll on the UK".[35] Following their cancellation, the band wrote an explainer in The Independent, saying they had written a satirical song "in protest at brutal austerity" and released it during the 2017 general election to encourage the electorate to vote out the Conservatives.[36]

Through crude shock tactics our song's aim was to draws attention to the double-standards of what constitutes violence in society. ... the piece would not exist at all if the destructive and violent policies of the Tory party hadn't taken such a long and devastating toll on the UK. These violent acts are there for everyone to see, embedded as they are into years of pointless austerity – coupled with attacks on lower income people, migrants and those who are absolutely dependent on social welfare for anything from disabilities through to mental health issues. We believe that music and art has the power to undermine the establishment and we will continue to use satire to get our message across.

— Killdren (2019)[36]

During the 2021 Conservative Party Conference, two people followed Iain Duncan Smith and called him "Tory scum", with one of the people telling Duncan Smith to "Fuck off out of Manchester". The MP took the protesters to court, but the court found the pair not guilty of using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour with intent,[37] ruling, in 2023, that the protesters' actions were reasonable in the context of articles of the Human Rights Act - the rights to freedom of expression and freedom of assembly and association[38] - and upheld the ruling at appeal from Duncan Smith.[37] According to The National, one of the protesters defended their "comments on the grounds that she worked with homeless people in her community and saw the devastating impact of Tory policies on their quality of life"[37] - and the judge found that "the use of Tory scum was to highlight the policies".[37][38]

In 2022, Conservative Party leadership contenders Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss attended a hustings in Perth where they were met by a crowd shouting "Tory scum".[39][40][41] Conservative MP for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine Andrew Bowie claimed "eggs were being thrown" and that there was "spitting at pensioners". Police Scotland said any reports of criminality would be investigated thoroughly.[39] Writing in The Herald, Mark Smith called for perspective, saying that the extremities seen at the protest were caused by a minority, while commenting that "We should also accept the right that people have to get very furious indeed about the Tories".[42]

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Video of Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg being heckled by protestors as he passes through Victoria Square in Birmingham during the 2022 Conservative Party Conference
video icon 'Tory scum' MP gets booed by angry protesters, The Mirror (3 October 2022)[43]

Protesters shouted "Tory scum" at Jacob Rees-Mogg as he was escorted through Victoria Square, in Birmingham, during the 2022 Conservative Party Conference. A protester explaining to PA Media:

Enough is enough really. We've had Brexit, we've had falling standards, we've had people having to work two jobs, people starving, people with no heating and just the kind of final straw is the announcement of the richest people getting a tax cut. Trickle-down economics doesn't work. We get nothing, nothing for the working people. It's got to stop. Tories out.[44]

Addressing conference attendees after the incident, Rees-Mogg said he did not mind being called "Tory scum",[45] commenting he thought it "marvellous, having a democracy where you can walk through the streets and people can exercise their rights to peaceful protest".[46]

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