Covid:19: NHS staff still struggling with “traumatic memories” of pandemic, report finds

Doctors and other NHS staff are still dealing with the devastating events they experienced during the covid-19 pandemic, whether seeing patients, colleagues, and loved ones die or feeling fearful for their own lives, a report by the UK Covid Inquiry has found.1The inquiry’s Every Story Matters team has been tasked with collating the personal experiences that have been shared with the inquiry during its investigation. As part of their first report they have looked at the lasting effects of the pandemic on doctors and other healthcare staff and the availability of support for them during and since. The team found that many healthcare staff struggled to deal with “overwhelming” workloads and the sheer number of patients who were dying, especially as many were also facing the deaths of their own family members, friends, and colleagues.“Experiencing so many deaths had a huge emotional impact on many in the healthcare workforce who…
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