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The Doctor

May 2022
COVID: It never went away

The former health secretary has said the COVID pandemic is over. The reality could hardly be more different

COVID: It never went away
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BMA in the news

Top story (LBC): Doctors share patients’ frustrations about the current state of the NHS, says BMA
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Let down

It will be years before the Government’s public inquiry into COVID gives its findings, but lessons need to be learned now. So the BMA is publishing its own reports into the pandemic, the first two revealing the woeful lack of protective equipment in the early days of the epidemic, and the profound physical and mental strain it has placed on doctors
COVID: It never went away
COVID: It never went away

The former health secretary has said the COVID pandemic is over. The reality could hardly be more different, with high case numbers, staff absences, and a terrible legacy of stress and overwork
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