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Coronavirus UK: NHS hospitals in London ‘are drafting in SECRETARIES to help on busy wards’

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Desperate NHS hospitals are planning to draft in secretaries to help out on wards as they face a rising tide of Covid patients, internal documents reveal. There were 32,294 people in hospital with Covid-19 as of last Thursday, January 7, and wards are seeing numbers of sick patients increase across the country. Doctors and nurses, … Read more

Churchill’s secretaries were shouted at, worked 20-hour days and had to take dictation up ladders

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BOOK OF THE WEEK WORKING WITH WINSTON  by Cita Stelzer (Head of Zeus £20, 400 pp)   Fetch me klop!’ That was Winston Churchill, barking instructions to his quaking new secretary Kathleen Hill in 1937, on her first evening working for him. ‘Klop’ was Churchill’s private onomatopoeic word for his hole-puncher. But Kathleen had no idea … Read more