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Dentists deployed: an insider’s perspective of life on the NHS front line

Published:2021-09 Issue:3 Volume:10 Page:21-29
ISSN:2050-1684
Container-title:Primary Dental Journal
language:en
Short-container-title:Prim Dent J

Author:

Powell Harriet E.¹

Affiliation:

1. Specialty Dentist, Paediatric Dentistry, Manchester Dental Hospital, UK

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has stretched and overburdened healthcare services within the UK. This national crisis has led to the widespread redeployment of healthcare workers and reorganization of services throughout the NHS in the UK. The flexible and altruistic nature of healthcare workers has been inspiring, and central in the UK’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This article describes the ‘first-hand’ experience of a secondary care dentist, highlighting the redeployment journey to the emergency department (ED) of a major trauma hospital in the North-West of England during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

General Medicine

Link

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/20501684211034013

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