Liz Whitehead

John Cross's daughter 💔

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[VIBUK Official @VIBUK_Official]

No denying it—we're on the record. VIBUK met with the former Ministers @wesstreeting and @AshleyDalton_MP to discuss the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme.

These meetings are an acknowledgment that the concerns raised by vaccine-injured people have reached government. Now those concerns must be matched by action. The VDPS needs meaningful reform to ensure it is fairer, more transparent, more accessible, and better reflects the needs of those living with life-changing injuries and bereavement.

Recognition is important, but reform is what matters.

#VDPSreform
#Support

@jamesmurray_ldn
@SharonHodgsonMP
@DHSCgovuk
@Keir_Starmer
@andyburnham
@covidinquiryuk

[VIBUK Official @VIBUK_Official]

Covid Inquiry criticised over ‘questionable’ vaccine data

https://t.co/uc5KBrzHRE

[Claire Newell @clairenewell4]

Posting again with the correct handle for Liz!
John Cross was left paralysed after having the Astrazeneca Covid jab. After his application for financial support from the government support scheme was rejected, he took his own life.
His family fought for years to overturn the initial decision and finally, nearly three years after he died, they were successful. His daughter @ewhitehead1985 feels he was let down by the system that was supposed to support him and is now calling for the government to take action and reform the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme. Tap the link to read the full story here: https://t.co/Zz7X78UBKD

[Liz Whitehead @ewhitehead1985]

@clairenewell4 @Telegraph Hi Claire thank you for sharing. You might want to change my handle. Its @ewhitehead1985

[Claire Newell @clairenewell4]

John Cross was left paralysed after having the Astrazeneca Covid jab. After his application for financial support from the government support scheme was rejected, he took his own life.

His family fought for years to overturn the initial decision and finally, nearly three years after he died, they were successful. His daughter Liz @lizwhitehead1985 feels he was let down by the system that was supposed to support him and is now calling for the government to take action and reform the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme. Tap the link to read the full story here: https://t.co/Zz7X78UBKD

[Liz Whitehead @ewhitehead1985]

This was January 2025 @BradleyThomasUK Have we met the Health Secretary? NO. Has the VDPS been reformed? NO. Do the government care about us? NO?

[VIBUK Official @VIBUK_Official]

The UK Covid-19 Inquiry has recommended the need for government to deliver reform of the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme ASAP. Currently though any reform is stuck in a cycle of being "considered".

With a revolving door of Health Secretaries since 2021, a key question is: Will any Health Secretary stay in office long enough to move from "considering" reform to actually implementing it?

* @MattHancock — 2 years, 11 months, 17 days
* @sajidjavid — 1 year, 9 days
* @SteveBarclay — 63 days
* @theresecoffey — 49 days
* @SteveBarclay — 1 year, 19 days
* @VictoriaAtkins — 235 days
* @wesstreeting — 1 year, 10 months, 9 days
* @jamesmurray_ldn — currently serving (about month, 12 days as of 26 June 2026)

How many more ministers will come and go before the "considering" ends and those affected by vaccine-injured and bereavement see action?

Who will be the Health Minister who does the right thing? !!!!

@DHSCgovuk
@Keir_Starmer
@AndyBurnhamGM

#VDPSreform
#VaccineInjury
#TimeForChange.

[Liz Whitehead @ewhitehead1985]

@VIBUK_Official @wesstreeting @Keir_Starmer @DHSCgovuk My Dad, John Cross, had a catestrophic reaction to his covid vaccination. If it took our family 5 years, 3 mandatory reversals, a suicide and a tribunal trial to get the VDPS payment then what hope is there?

[VIBUK Official @VIBUK_Official]

How many more families will be forced into sharing their experiences of the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme before @DHSCgovuk
@jamesmurray_ldn take action to reform the scheme and provide proper support to those affected by vaccine harms?

@Telegraph

https://t.co/PdnBB4ErNc

[VIBUK Official @VIBUK_Official]

We would like to thank everyone who follows us, reposts our content, and quotes our posts. Your support means so much to us and helps keep this important issue in the public eye.

We have one more favour to ask. Please consider sharing this article to help raise further awareness—not only of the devastating consequences of vaccine injury, but also of the impact of not having access to a vaccine damage payment scheme that is fit for purpose.

Every share helps more people understand the reality faced by those affected. Thank you for your continued support.
🙏

@ewhitehead1985

[VIBUK Official @VIBUK_Official]

It is now 10 weeks since the COVID Inquiry published its recommendations on reform of the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme. And 5 years since the first Covid vaccine injuries and deaths.

We are told a Government response is due by 16 October, but only because the Inquiry has required it. There has been no sign of urgency or meaningful communication from Government in the meantime. If there was real urgency, it is fair to ask why those affected are still waiting for even basic clarity at this stage.

This is made more difficult by the fact we met with the then Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, @wesstreeting , in September 2024 to raise these concerns directly. Despite that meeting, and the Inquiry’s clear recommendations since, there is still no indication of how — or even whether — reform is being taken forward.

For vaccine injured people and bereaved families, this ongoing silence is hard to reconcile with the seriousness of what has been experienced and acknowledged. It adds to a growing sense of abandonment.

More broadly, this goes to trust in public health policy and the wider social contract. That trust depends not just on schemes existing in name, but on transparency, timely communication, and follow-through when systems are found wanting.

At the moment, “considering” is all we are hearing — without any indication of what that actually means in reality.

@DHSCgovuk
@jamesmurray_ldn
@SharonHodgsonMP
@Keir_Starmer
@AndyBurnhamGM

#VDPSreform
#Communication
#VaccineInjury
#VaccineDeaths

[React19 - Official @React19org]

After years of appeals, the Cross family finally received recognition through the UK's Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme (VDPS).

Their experience highlights the importance of ensuring those facing serious medical challenges are treated with transparency, compassion, and dignity.

Are you injured and live in the UK? Connect with UKCV Family: https://t.co/o2HiwavklQ

Watch more of their story: https://t.co/HUISLbFelF

[Liz Whitehead @ewhitehead1985]

@VIBUK_Official @DizzyRetro @chris_chope @BradleyThomasUK @MP4Stratford could you do the same please? Writing to the Health Secretary is clearly not enough

[VIBUK Official @VIBUK_Official]

🔴 @chris_chope MP has tabled three Private Members’ Bills relating to COVID-19 vaccine injury and the UK’s support system:

* Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme (Covid-19 Inquiry)
* Covid-19 Vaccine Damage
* Covid-19 Vaccine Damage Payments

Private Members’ Bills are an important way for MPs to raise issues in Parliament and push for debate on areas that may otherwise be overlooked. Sir Christopher Chope has consistently used this route to highlight concerns around support for those affected.

These proposals bring renewed attention to the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme and wider questions about how people affected by vaccine injury and bereavement are supported.

We would like to thank @chris_chope for his support and persistence in raising these issues.

@jamesmurray_ldn
@DHSCgovuk
@SharonHodgsonMP
@Keir_Starmer
@AndyBurnhamGM
@darrenpjones

#VDPSreform
#SUPPORT
#VaccineInjury

[VIBUK Official @VIBUK_Official]

https://t.co/eCcsIMIctB
In May 2024, VIBUK delivered a letter to Downing Street demanding reform of the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme.
Since then, we have met with @wesstreeting and @AshleyDalton_MP, written repeatedly to ministers and officials, contributed to national media coverage, appeared on television, in articles, and given evidence to the @covidinquiryuk.

We do care who is Prime Minister and who holds the health brief, because they have the power to deliver the justice and support that those who have suffered a vaccine-injury or who have lost a loved one to a vaccine have been denied for far too long.

Governments, PMs, Ministers may change, but our determination does not. We will continue to engage, challenge, and campaign until the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme is reformed and those harmed by vaccination are treated with the fairness, dignity, and respect they deserve.

We are not going away. The job is not done.

@jamesmurray_ldn
@SharonHodgsonMP
@UKLabour
@10DowningStreet
@AndyBurnhamGM
@darrenpjones
@Keir_Starmer
@StuartAndrew

#VDPS #VaccineInjury #JusticeForTheVaccineInjured
#JusticeForTheVaccineBereaved

[Ward S @Ward57434516]

@VIBUK_Official @wesstreeting @AshleyDalton_MP On the day we delivered that letter we then walked round to the DHSC to deliver a copy of the letter to the then health minister @VictoriaAtkins by that that time @RishiSunak had resigned. It didn't break our spirit we will continue to campaign for VDPS for as long as it takes.

[VIBUK Official @VIBUK_Official]

Stratford woman Liz Whitehead relieved as five year fight to get vaccine compensation for her late father comes to an end

https://t.co/CyO4qL4eN7

[Liz Whitehead @ewhitehead1985]

Love you forever & never forget you, take you with me on all of life's adventures and do you proud.

[VIBUK Official @VIBUK_Official]

Remember this Sir Jeremy Wright (17/6/2025) asks @wesstreeting for a progress report on a "fairer and more effective way of compensating those injured by a covid vaccination"
Over 12 months later we are still waiting for that progress report, saying the issue is being "considered" isn't an update its a delaying tactic.

Perhaps @jamesmurray_ldn @DHSCgovuk could give that update before 16th October 2026.

[Ward S @Ward57434516]

@wesstreeting @AndyBurnhamGM We definitely need change on the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme. I hope you will help to push that change through.