NHS nurses on Britain’s coronavirus frontline tell how colleagues are now REFUSING to go into work after ‘being forced to buy their own aprons’ and treat ‘coughing’ patients without face masks due to supply shortages Nurses at two major London hospitals have said they don’t have enough stock Warning comes as the UK is reportedly … Read more
‘They feel like lambs to the slaughter’: Top medic says doctors and nurses feel like they are coronavirus ‘CANNON FODDER’ with a lack of tests and protective equipment for frontline NHS staff, in appeal to Boris Johnson Doctors’ Association chairman Dr Rinesh Parmar made a direct appeal to PM He said NHS staff are still … Read more
Nurses have been pictured wearing clinical waste bags on their heads and feet at an NHS hospital that has been overwhelmed by coronavirus. Northwick Park hospital, in Harrow, London, declared an emergency situation on Thursday after all of its critical care beds were filled with patients. It took 24 hours for the hospital to stand … Read more
‘Dear superheroes in scrubs’: Kids leave adorable note and sacrifice their pocket money to buy gift bags doctors and nurses fighting the coronavirus Kaleisha Pilkington said her children wanted to help Australian doctors, nurses They put together gift bags for the ‘superheroes in scrubs’ and penned a poem Other Australians have banded together to help … Read more
More than 65,000 former nurses and doctors will be told ‘Your NHS Needs You’ as a national recruitment drive is launched in an effort to defeat the coronavirus outbreak. The drive comes as Boris Johnson took time to thank you to ‘everyone working in our NHS’. In a tweet the prime minister told NHS staff of … Read more
Pressure is mounting on the UK Government to upgrade its coronavirus testing as other countries switch to diagnostic kits that take just minutes to produce results. Boris Johnson today announced testing will be ramped up to 25,000 a day after coming under scathing criticism for letting thousands go undiagnosed. Only 5,000 people were being swabbed daily … Read more
The immense scale of this crisis is terrifying to comprehend, not least for those politicians and scientists who find themselves taking decisions with life and death consequences. Yet in a war, one thing should be beyond debate: you must equip and protect your frontline forces to the best of your ability, whether they are soldiers … Read more
Colourised images showing how doctors and nurses fought to save Spanish Flu sufferers in 1918 have been revealed for the first time a century later. They show community centres and sports halls in the US converted into makeshift hospitals for the sick, while cinemas were closed and people wore face masks when they went to … Read more
Thousands of trainee nurses in their final year will be ‘invited’ to start their careers before they qualify so they can help to tackle coronavirus NHS England chief executive said some of the 18,000 students in final year of training would be ‘invited’ into clinical practice They are in their last 12 months of three-year … Read more
Italian nurses have been bruised by constant face mask use and left slumped over their desks from exhaustion as they battle the coronavirus crisis in Italy. One nurse, Alessia Bonari, posted a picture of her bruised face after wearing protective gear for hours during a shift in Milan. Describing life at the hospital, she revealed … Read more