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Some lovely news today. We have now closed our huge 'surge' COVID ICU @teamaccu @RoyalLondonHosp and moved the final few COVID patients to our 'main' ICU. This place was a

An update from ground level across the UK NHS. Things are very different to March. UK COVID-19 projections continue to look more like a ‘slow burn’ than a second wave.

As the NHS enters what will likely be our hardest ever winter, what about the Nightingales….? is a common question, and for some a retort to news that hospitals are

Routine NHS services under big pressure as COVID hospital admissions rise. We cancelled most surgery in the first wave including many cancer operations. Public, patient groups & doctors arguing strongly

The suggestion NHS intensive care units thoughtlessly turned away COVID patients purely because of their age is very upsetting. This article quotes ICU doctors off the record but I don't

A lot of new data out on treatments for COVID-19. Updating a previous thread with what we know now. Still lots of research ongoing and a few things may change.

Some optimistic commentary here from @FICMNewsDean @AlisonPittard, suggesting we are getting better at treating COVID-19 leading to fewer deaths than the first wave. Is this over-optimistic, or are patient outcomes

On call this weekend for @teamaccu @RoyalLondonHosp looking after our COVID patients in ICU. Reflecting on the new low that a small minority of doctors/scientists have reached in using their

Someone asked if I could explain the various treatments which have been proposed for COVID-19. This is just my take and you may find some doctors disagree. Lots of research

Brief update from the front lines: The second wave is definitely here and NHS hospitals are putting the finishing touches to their escalation plans. Time to make the difficult call

A reflection on the second wave so far. Last time we did what was asked with a huge sense of national community spirit. For each other. Because it was the

So this weekend, I decided to put a thread together which I hoped would reassure the patients served by my NHS Trust in east London. It seems to have caught