Time off needed for NHS staff after seeing “truly horrific things” - warns doctor

Time off needed for NHS staff after seeing “truly horrific things” - warns doctor

Professor Andrew Goddard, president of the Royal College of Physicians (RCP), warned that things “can’t go from crisis management with the pandemic to crisis management of the backlog”.He spoke as a survey of doctors across the UK showed almost half were not getting enough sleep, and almost two thirds said there had been no discussion in their organisation about timetabled time off.