BBC World Service – DAUK https://dauk.org The voice of frontline doctors Wed, 30 Dec 2020 22:11:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 DAUK on BBC World Service: Dr Katie Sanderson speaks about the extreme pressures facing hospitals and frontline staff https://dauk.org/dauk-on-bbc-world-service-dr-katie-sanderson-speaks-about-the-extreme-pressures-facing-hospitals-and-frontline-staff/ https://dauk.org/dauk-on-bbc-world-service-dr-katie-sanderson-speaks-about-the-extreme-pressures-facing-hospitals-and-frontline-staff/#respond Wed, 30 Dec 2020 22:11:03 +0000 https://dauk.org/dauk-on-bbc-world-service-dr-katie-sanderson-speaks-about-the-extreme-pressures-facing-hospitals-and-frontline-staff/ The Doctors’ Association UK’s Dr Katie Sanderson spoke to BBC World Service about the extreme pressure that NHS hospitals and staff are facing during the second wave of Covid-19.

There are now more patients with coronavirus in hospital in London than there were in the first wave. A lot of hospitals have very limited intensive care capacity.

Over the weekend and bank holiday… ambulances were backing up that couldn’t hand over their patients to A&E departments, because A&E departments were full of patients who needed to be admitted to hospital, but which didn’t have beds.

The fear is that if it’s this bad now, and we haven’t really seen patients who contracted Covid infections over Christmas… those patients who are going to become seriously ill are going to become seriously ill over the next few days, and are going to present to hospital. The pressure is really extreme, and people are worried that they are not going to be able to provide good or adequate care.

Dr Katie Sanderson, DAUK

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5fzhEpT1h8]]> https://dauk.org/dauk-on-bbc-world-service-dr-katie-sanderson-speaks-about-the-extreme-pressures-facing-hospitals-and-frontline-staff/feed/ 0 Dr Cicely Cunningham featured on BBC World Service, The Why Factor – Blame https://dauk.org/cicelycunninghambbcworldservicewhyfactor/ https://dauk.org/cicelycunninghambbcworldservicewhyfactor/#respond Tue, 05 Feb 2019 21:19:00 +0000 https://dauk.org/cicelycunninghambbcworldservicewhyfactor/ ‘When things go wrong, we crave something or someone to blame. It’s an emotional response found in nearly every culture – but why is this something we all recognise?’

After a junior doctor was convicted of gross negligence manslaughter for mistakes made whilst working under intolerable pressure, a campaign for a just culture in the NHS was launched by DAUK. This campaign, Learn Not Blame, is lead by Dr Cicely Cunningham, a DAUK executive committee member. Listen to Cicely being interviewed by BBC World Service for The Why Factor in this episode about blame.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p070n3g0

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