Top medic describes exodus of NHS staff over emotional 'scars' from Covid-19 pandemic

Covid-19 Inquiry hears from Dr Stephen Mathieu however the NHS entered the pandemic without capable unit and the Nightingale hospitals didn't work

A starring medic has described however determination has been an exodus of unit from the NHS owed to affectional “scars” from the pandemic.

Dr Stephen Mathieu, president of the Intensive Care Society, told the Covid-19 Inquiry that the NHS entered the pandemic without capable staff. His grounds comes days aft different elder medic broke down successful tears arsenic helium described scenes "from hell" successful intensive attraction wards.

Dr Mathieu, a advisor who besides worked connected the frontline during the pandemic, said: “The cardinal recommendations are astir the workforce. We cognize that we came into the pandemic with not capable unit to look aft the sickest patients that we attraction for successful the hospital. But the spot that is astir apt the much urgent and pressing substance is the retention of staff.

“The pandemic has truly harmed people. We've talked astir well-being intelligence enactment and ‘moral distress’. It's the fig of unit that person near due to the fact that of what is fundamentally embedded scars due to the fact that of the pandemic.”

In the latest module enquiry chairwoman Baroness Heather Hallett is examining the interaction of the situation connected NHS workers, patients and the transportation of healthcare.

A fortnight agone NHS England’s nationalist objective advisor successful exigency preparedness told the Covid-19 Inquiry with unit moving retired of assemblage bags and sick patients seemed to beryllium "raining from the sky". Professor Kevin Fong said helium was connected the country of the Soho bombing successful 1999 and worked successful A&E during the London 7/7 bombings "but thing that I saw...was arsenic atrocious arsenic Covid was each azygous day". During the aforesaid day’s evidence, England’s main aesculapian serviceman Chris Whitty said helium agreed with the caller landmark Darzi study that recovered the NHS was near susceptible to the pandemic aft a decade-long backing compression nether the Tories.

In yesterday’s evidence, Dr Mathieu said opening up alleged Nightingale Hospitals did not enactment due to the fact that determination were not capable unit and it meant they were diverted from hospitals that needed them. He said: “Intensive attraction is truthful reliant connected a multi-professional squad that needs to beryllium successful the aforesaid place, with entree to the diagnostics and the different important specialists who supply america with their input.

“The nightingale hospitals were not going to beryllium capable to bash that reliably for intensive care. The world is I don't deliberation it worked successful the mode that it was intended to and successful immoderate ways was an unintended distraction successful presumption of america trying to consolidate and negociate the workforce that we had wrong our ain hospitals.”