Joy, collaboration and leadership
It is a busy time for the NHS. Wards and A&E are full, staff are exhausted, but you don’t need me to tell you that. This Christmas I had Covid myself – it was worse than I thought it would be. Watching your household go down with it was scary – especially my daughter. Thankfully we are all on the mend, but the recovery is slower than I expected. As a fully-fledged member of #EarlyRisersClub and a runner, I’m still slow to get out of bed at the moment. I still do not have the lung capacity for running yet but I have managed some walks which I am so grateful for, I know I am far luckier than some. On my return to work I was asked to cover wards due to staffing and do some zoom calls – meaning all my meetings, my schedule, all the work I had to do stopped. I have seen first-hand how pushed we have been and I have seen first-hand how amazing our NHS is. On the wards I worked directly alongside several HCA’s, a TNA and international nurses. We worked hard, patien