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PPE debacle put 30% of staff in danger: Poor pandemic planning left frontline workers ‘risking their own lives’ in Covid-19 battle, report says Frontline workers left to ‘risk their own and their families’ lives’ due to lack of PPE 30 per cent of care workers, doctors and nurses reported insufficient PPE Health Department ‘wasted’ hundreds … Read more
Tens of thousands nurses have yet to receive a Covid jab, despite the Government aiming to have vaccinated all frontline health staff by next week. Some 15 per cent of nurses across the country have yet to be given a single dose of the coronavirus vaccine, a poll by the Royal College of Nurses found. … Read more
Coughing Covid patients put frontline NHS staff at far higher risk of catching the virus than thought and PPE plans may need a complete rethink, study finds Researchers found that coughing produces 10 times more infectious ‘aerosol’ There are now calls for healthcare workers to be given FFP3 respirator masks Dr James Dodd’s research suggests … Read more
Love Island’s Dr Alex George shares an insight into the ‘reality’ of working on the NHS frontline in A&E with powerful new post By Clare Mccarthy For Mailonline Published: 10:12 GMT, 25 January 2021 | Updated: 10:12 GMT, 25 January 2021 Dr Alex George gave an insight into the ‘reality’ of working on the NHS … Read more
Frontline workers at Covid testing centres are NOT being offered vaccines yet because they are ‘not in close contact’ with the virus and have PPE Department of Health said they weren’t in ‘close contact’ with the virus It also said they had ‘appropriate PPE’ to protect them from the disease Testing staff lean into cars … Read more
Met police chief Dame Cressida Dick is ‘baffled’ that frontline officers have not been prioritised for Covid jabs Met’s police chief revealed there have been 48 spitting attacks on police officers Further 97 incidents where someone threatened Covid-19 and coughed at police Dame Cressida said PCs who can’t dress in full PPE are putting themselves at … Read more
The Duke of Cambridge has spoken candidly about how seeing people die when he was an air ambulance pilot left him traumatised ‘for weeks on end’ and feeling the world was a ‘darker, blacker place’. Drawing on his own experiences speaking to front line workers dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, Prince William, 38, admitted his work regularly … Read more
Dr Alex George has been lauded by fans for his tireless work on the NHS front line during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Love Island star, 30, has been working as an A&E doctor in Lewisham throughout the pandemic, while many of his reality TV pals flout the rules by jetting to Dubai and claiming their … Read more
Dr Alex George urged those fighting on the front line to take care of themselves as they continue to battle coronavirus. In an Instagram post shared on Friday, the Love Island star, 30, posed for a picture and penned a lengthy caption in a post shared two days after he received his first round of … Read more
A father who died of Covid despite shielding has left behind the ultimate legacy – six children who all work on the NHS front line. Tributes have been paid to Ahsan-ul-Haq Chaudry, who died aged 81 at the East London hospital where his daughter works, commending his hard work in raising an ITU doctor, two GPs, a … Read more