Critical Reflections on the COVID-19 Pandemic from the NHS Frontline

The COVID-19 pandemic fundamentally changed the way we live, work, and interact with each other. Nowhere was the pandemic more profoundly experienced than on the frontline of healthcare. From overwhelmed Intensive Care Units to shortages of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and clap for carers, th...

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Autores: Lloyd, Anthony, Briggs, Daniel , Ellis, Anthony, Telford, Luke
Formato: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Recursos:Universidad Europea (UEM)
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spelling Critical Reflections on the COVID-19 Pandemic from the NHS FrontlineLloyd, AnthonyBriggs, Daniel Ellis, AnthonyTelford, LukeCOVID-19Personal paramédicoVirusEstrés mentalThe COVID-19 pandemic fundamentally changed the way we live, work, and interact with each other. Nowhere was the pandemic more profoundly experienced than on the frontline of healthcare. From overwhelmed Intensive Care Units to shortages of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and clap for carers, the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) became the focal point for the pandemic response. Utilising data from online survey responses (N = 16) complemented by four online interviews and one face-to-face interview (N = 5) with NHS workers primarily during the height of the pandemic, this article offers a preliminary analysis on the challenges the UK’s healthcare workers faced through working in conditions of crisis management. The article particularly addresses NHS workers’ amplification of fear, anxiety, and exhaustion; the absence of widespread solidarity; and implications of the absence of coherent governmental messaging upon the workforce. We situate this discussion within a critical account of neoliberal political economy, the theoretical framework of social harm, and the absence to explicate the harmful conditions of the pandemic’s frontline. While the data are confined to the UK’s NHS workers, its findings are relevant to other countries across the world that enacted similar responses to deal with COVID-19.20232023-05-3020232023-01-0120232023-01-01journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/11268/12077reponame:ABACUS. Repositorio de Producción Científicainstname:Universidad Europea (UEM)Inglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:abacus.universidadeuropea.com:11268/120772026-06-11T12:41:27Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Critical Reflections on the COVID-19 Pandemic from the NHS Frontline
title Critical Reflections on the COVID-19 Pandemic from the NHS Frontline
spellingShingle Critical Reflections on the COVID-19 Pandemic from the NHS Frontline
Lloyd, Anthony
COVID-19
Personal paramédico
Virus
Estrés mental
title_short Critical Reflections on the COVID-19 Pandemic from the NHS Frontline
title_full Critical Reflections on the COVID-19 Pandemic from the NHS Frontline
title_fullStr Critical Reflections on the COVID-19 Pandemic from the NHS Frontline
title_full_unstemmed Critical Reflections on the COVID-19 Pandemic from the NHS Frontline
title_sort Critical Reflections on the COVID-19 Pandemic from the NHS Frontline
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Briggs, Daniel 
Ellis, Anthony
Telford, Luke
author Lloyd, Anthony
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Briggs, Daniel 
Ellis, Anthony
Telford, Luke
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Ellis, Anthony
Telford, Luke
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv COVID-19
Personal paramédico
Virus
Estrés mental
topic COVID-19
Personal paramédico
Virus
Estrés mental
description The COVID-19 pandemic fundamentally changed the way we live, work, and interact with each other. Nowhere was the pandemic more profoundly experienced than on the frontline of healthcare. From overwhelmed Intensive Care Units to shortages of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and clap for carers, the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) became the focal point for the pandemic response. Utilising data from online survey responses (N = 16) complemented by four online interviews and one face-to-face interview (N = 5) with NHS workers primarily during the height of the pandemic, this article offers a preliminary analysis on the challenges the UK’s healthcare workers faced through working in conditions of crisis management. The article particularly addresses NHS workers’ amplification of fear, anxiety, and exhaustion; the absence of widespread solidarity; and implications of the absence of coherent governmental messaging upon the workforce. We situate this discussion within a critical account of neoliberal political economy, the theoretical framework of social harm, and the absence to explicate the harmful conditions of the pandemic’s frontline. While the data are confined to the UK’s NHS workers, its findings are relevant to other countries across the world that enacted similar responses to deal with COVID-19.
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