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NHS staff ‘burned out, fatigued and desperately sad’
A nurse holds a painting of Prime Minister Boris Johnson clapping with blood on his hands as part of a demonstration of NHS workers at hospitals across London, in summer 2020
A YEAR after the first confirmed Covid-19 cases in Britain, health workers have been left “burned out, fatigued and desperately sad.”
These words, from intensive-care nurse Joanne Morrell, sum up the toll that the year-long struggle against coronavirus has had and is taking on dedicated health-service staff.
But with well over 100,000 people’s lives now cut short by the coronavirus, which saw its first confirmed cases in Britain a year ago today, NHS workers and their unions still find themselves demanding action — on testing, staffing and protective equipment.
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