highly trained to deliver clinical care, whereas the general duty personnel can assist in tasks such as logistics, moving oxygen around, assisting members to call their family or helping with meal times. all of that allows the highly skilled clinicians to focus their care where it s needed most. so, what they re likely to see is primarily an nhs workforce with support people wearing pretty much what i m wearing now but with the relevant protective equipment, just assisting as part of that wider effort. we can t really forecast too far ahead, but certainly throughout this current surge, we know it is particularly difficult in london at the minute, but we are aware that this is impacting all across the united kingdom. so we remain in discussions and there are a number of areas where we re looking at the potential for more assistance. so over the coming weeks and months, i think we will learn a lot from how the progress is made through london and potentially there could be further militar
personnel can assist in tasks such as logistics, moving oxygen around, assisting members to call their family or helping with meal times. all of that allows the highly skilled clinicians to focus their care where it s needed most. so, what they re likely to see is primarily an nhs workforce with support people wearing pretty much what i m wearing now but with the relevant protective equipment, just assisting as part of that wider effort. we can t really forecast too far ahead, but certainly throughout this current surge, we know it is particularly difficult in london at the minute, but we are aware that this is impacting all across the united kingdom. so we remain in discussions and there are a number of areas where we re looking at the potential for more assistance. so over the coming weeks and months, i think we will learn a lot from how the progress is made through london
it will help, but it won t solve the problem. nearly 2,000 military personnel have already been deployed across the uk. a further 7,000 are on standby. in scotland, 90 personnel are preparing to assist three health boards, as the nhs braces itself for yet another winter wave of admissions. katharine da costa, bbc news. air commodorejohn lyle, who s responsible for the military s civil contingency operations in the uk, told us what the public will see and that he expects further deployments in the coming weeks. throughout london what we ve done is we ve broken our personnel down into smaller teams. so, we have a mix of defence medics and what we call general duties personnel, and the medics are obviously more highly trained to deliver clinical care, whereas the general duty personnel can assist in tasks such as logistics, moving oxygen around, assisting members to call their