In Focus 🔎 | As Junior Doctors head to the picket line for a fresh set of strikes, Metro speaks to those working in the NHS today about the harsh realities they face on the daily basis
. In a recent survey, 32% of frontline workers that we spoke to said they had felt suicidal in the last two weeks.’and frontline workers with emotional and psychological support at the height of the Covid crisis – adds that she is convinced lives are more in danger now than ever before, even in times of the pandemic.
With the NHS crisis deepening, it seems that not only are patients suffering, but so are hospital staff ‘I was told it was a patient safety issue and that I was the only one that could do it because of gaps everywhere else in the hospital,’ she explains. ‘I went for lunch at 3pm and as I was eating the cardiac arrest bleep went off. I ran to a ward on the other side of the hospital, took over running the cardiac arrest and a team of around 10 people. Unfortunately we could not save this gentleman and I proposed to the team that we stop. Everyone was in agreement and we withdrew attempts.
‘Trying to have conversations about CPR and breaking bad news to relatives where so many people can overhear you, is just awful,’ she adds. The co-chair of the Yorkshire Junior Doctors Committee, he warns the NHS is unable to deliver proper care due to stretched resources. ‘We are firefighting, trying to keep everyone alive until the morning team arrives, which is just as poorly staffed and exhausted.
‘There are many issues within the NHS, including toxicity in the workplace, and unsafe staff-to-patient ratios that exacerbate the culture and reality of overwork for healthcare professionals,’ she goes on to explains. Zoe, who is the founder of wellbeing platform Wellgood Wellbeing, adds: ‘Stories I’m hearing from my secondary care medical friends are horrific. Women giving birth on waiting room floors… patients having to be asses in supply cupboard because there’s nowhere else.’
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