Now on bbc news, britain has one of the highest death toll from covid 19 in the world. This film follows staff at the Royal Hospital in london as they try to cope with a second way. And a warning, this programme contains content which some of may find it distressing. Shes young. Shes someone s relative. This is something precious that were holding and were trying to do. My wife lost her fight for life. Nobody wants to go through this. I wouldnt wish this on anybody. The coronavirus pandemic has hit the United Kingdom hard. I think the public want to do the right thing, but i dont feel they understand fully the scale of the problem. This is the story of one of the hospitals in the eye of the storm. So were now going to run into a problem because we havent got any beds. Weve got patients on 12 floors in total. Weve returned to the royal london, to witness for ten days the full force of the second wave of covid 19. Staff are tired, and then we have to ask them to do more and more and more
Now on bbc news, britain has one of the highest death tolls from covid 19 in the world. Clive myrie s film follows staff at the Royal London Hospital as they try to cope with a second wave. A warning this programme contains content which some viewers may find distressing. Shes young. Shes someone s relative. This is something precious that were holding and were trying to do. My wife lost her fight for life. Nobody wants to go through this. I wouldnt wish this on anybody. The coronavirus pandemic has hit the United Kingdom hard. I think the public want to do the right thing, but i dont feel they understand fully the scale of the problem. This is the story of one of the hospitals in the eye of the storm. So were now going to run into a problem because we havent got any beds. Weve got patients on 12 floors in total. Weve returned to the royal london, to witness for ten days the full force of the second wave of covid 19. Staff are tired, and then we have to ask them to do more and more and
thanks to god i ve made it through. the pandemic has forced much self examination. what are our thresholds for lockdowns and mandates and covid rules? we all looked within, appraising our own capacity to cope, and the nhs has had do the same. scanning forensically and examining its practises and procedures and one of the biggest questions is with whether covid vaccines should be mandatory for staff. the government says yes. actually, yes. please. it is fairly urgent. consultant marie healy, who helped lead the nhs troops at the royal london in the battle against covid, thinks differently. i think the difficulty with the mandatory vaccine is some, we are going to lose staff, and i think we can t afford to. do you know staff who have made it clear they are going to leave? yes, definitely. i believe that true and we have already lost some. it s a bit of a numbers
is with whether covid vaccines should be mandatory for staff. the government says yes. actually, yes. please. it is fairly urgent. consultant marie healy, who helped lead the nhs troops at the royal london in the battle against covid, thinks differently. i think the difficulty with the mandatory vaccine is some, we are going to lose staff, and i think we can t afford to. do you know staff who have made it clear they are going to leave? yes, definitely. i believe that true and we have already lost some. it s a bit of a numbers game isn t it, tonight. staffing pressures made worse by the highly infectious 0micron variants. i am six nurses down. fears over rising cases after plan b restrictions are lifted and long term ever growing waiting lists, all mean tough times ahead. so make no mistake, the worst of the covid pandemic may be over, with fewer patients needing