The past week has been the strangest in my 35-year career. Like our local hospitals, we have been busy preparing for the next few weeks while also trying to deal with our normal workload and a burgeoning number of Covid-19 infections — suspected and confirmed. We need more ventilators, more staff, decent personal protective equipment and better testing. However, we are where we are and if my team is anything to go by, the NHS is up for the challenge. As we try to minimise the number of patients who come to the practice — for their sake and ours (we have lost 20 per cent of our

Source: The Times March 30, 2020 16:06 UTC