A nurse works on a patient in the ICU (Intensive Care Unit) in St George s Hospital in Tooting, south-west London - PA Managers have raised their concerns about the long-term mental health impact the coronavirus crisis could have on frontline staff. Tori Cooper, head of nursing in the Emergency Department at St Georges, said the usually good staff morale had been chipped away during the pandemic. Mrs Cooper, 44, told the PA news agency: “It’s hard to find that joy when you come into work – you’re scared for your colleagues, your families and yourself. “There’s only so much you can come in and see an unprecedented number of healthy people die before that affects you,” she said.
The U.K. is the epicenter of Europe’s COVID-19 outbreak once more, and Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative government is facing questions, and anger.
The crisis facing Britain this winter is depressingly familiar: Stay-at-home orders and empty streets. Hospitals overflowing. A daily toll of many hundreds of coronavirus deaths.
LONDON (AP) The crisis facing Britain this winter is depressingly familiar: Stay-at-home orders and empty streets. Hospitals overflowing. A daily toll of many hundreds of coronavirus.
Tracy Nicholls, head of the College of Paramedics, says paramedics are under an unprecedented pressure
She said some ambulance crews have reported waiting up to ten hours to transfer a patient to hospital staff
Professor Chris Whitty said hospitals could be overwhelmed in weeks in a scathing article in the Sunday Times
Some 46,000 hospital workers are currently off sick with coronavirus as NHS comes under more pressure