'It was like losing a loved one every day': Lockdown as a palliative care nurse

'It was like losing a loved one every day': Lockdown as a palliative care nurse

Sue Thurston worked as a palliative care nurse during the spring 2020 Covid lockdown and has shared her experiences

TV tonight: a painful but lovely film about the victims of the pandemic

Catey Sexton’s documentary remembers how Covid-19 changed us all. Plus: Crongton is a bold new comedy. Here’s what to watch this evening8.30pm, BBC One“It feels like we’re in a rush to forget and move on,” says film-maker Catey Sexton, in her feature documentary marking five years since the Covid-19 outbreak. But, as family members and friends of the more than 230,000 people who died tell her, life will never be the same again. Sexton’s own moth…

Covid pandemic remembered: West Midlands medics reflect on experiences

Staff at a Smethwick hospital talk of medics throwing up and having panic attacks in the pandemic.

'It was vicious' - West Midlands NHS staff recall anxiety of Covid-19 pandemic five years on

NHS staff in Birmingham overcame anxiety to spring into action to look after patients and each other when Covid 19 struck five years ago.