The lovely husband is an NHS doctor, currently working on the COVID wards in a hospital about an hour's drive away. From 7.30 am this morning, he is expecting to be on call for the next 226 hours. (No in the hospital all the time, but continuously available to be there).

I've just driven across there with a box of visors made by the lovely @vdiazucl and her team who are 3D printing PPE for the NHS. If you can help her out with some cash for materials that would be awesome: https://justgiving.com/crowdfunding/academicsagainstcovid-3dprintingforthenhs

Driving across to do the delivery, on empty roads emblazoned with "stay home" signs felt utterly transgressive. How ridiculous is it that this was the best way to get PPE to frontline workers? About as ridiculous as the number of hours those workers are having to do?

I've spent the last 10 years listening to my husband talk about how successive Tory governments expect the NHS to do more with less. They've left our NHS pared to the bone. Its not just that there's not enough PPE. In a crisis, there's not enough doctors, nurses, support staff...

When we get through this, we have to remember that a health service with no spare capacity, is a health service that will be pushed beyond its limits in a crisis, that will have to ask its workers to attempt to be superhuman. We have to fund it better, not just clap.