Health care workers are exhausted, with little time to recuperate. Staff sickness has reached critical levels. The requirements on the use of protective gear have not yet been reviewed in…
“The overall idea is that we will not be doing what we did the first time,” said Lewis, who works in London and is the general secretary of the Doctors’ Association UK. “Some people will have to be redeployed, but it won’t be on the scale that it was before.”
Her chief concern is for patients without the virus. “I’m hopeful that we’ve learned some lessons from the first wave. From a personal point of view, I just want to continue treating cancer patients – my big fear this time around is for non-Covid patients.”
Dr Rebecca Lewis DAUK General Secretary on Radio4 on Dominic Cummings: “We've all seen our patients go through the most unimaginable things in the last few months. And we've all had to make difficult decisions when going to work about child care and what we should do if we get sick. We don't have this option to go to second homes and go to get this extra help.”
Dr Rebecca Lewis, of the Doctors‘ Association UK said the organisation was delighted with the U-turn. “At all times, but especially in the current pandemic, it is absolutely right that health workers who should be exempt from an extra charge to access the health service they contribute so much,” she said. “We are privileged to have them care for us, and finally this has been recognised. This a welcome decision from Boris Johnson and one we applaud.”
Frontline workers are set to be tested for coronavirus in mobile units after out of town drive-through centres proved a flop. Care workers and NHS staff complained test centres in the likes of Ikea car parks were too difficult to get to, leaving them sat empty.
