Unable to work or to play with their children, forced to sell their homes or facing insolvency doctors with long covid deserve more support from the government and the NHS, writes Adele Waters
When Kelly Fearnley first stepped on to a surgical ward as a doctor at Bradford Royal Infirmary in August 2020 her head was still buzzing with delight at having finally achieved her dream of qualifying in medicine.
As a mature student she had financed herself through a medical degree by working shifts as a pharmacy assistant. Now, aged 34, she was ready to get stuck into her foundation training.
Early months were spent dealing with emergency surgical patients but by autumn, as the second wave of covid-19 struck, the hospital opened several covid wards and she was deployed to work on one of them.
She remembers: “I walked onto the ward full of covid patients to find only plastic pinnies and flimsy blue surgical masks. I’d expected long sleeved surgical gowns and FFP3 masks. I remember aski
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Time to celebrate - protesters show their joy after it was announced plans to widen Priory Crescent had been abandoned by Southend Council in April 2009 IT has been revealed that Southend Council has not ruled out resurrecting controversial plans to widen Priory Crescent despite similar proposals triggering treetop protests in 2005. These snaps show protesters who demonstrated their opposition to a proposed multi-million pound plan to widen the busy Priory Crescent section of the A1159 road over the Royal Saxon tomb in Prittlewell. Camp Bling was established in Priory Park in September 2005 and quickly became a thriving community, with a collection of huts made from wood and tarpaulin.