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- Rahul Aggarwal, final year medical student
- Guy’s, King’s, and St Thomas’ Medical School, Guy’s Campus, London, UK
- rahulaggarwal1998{at}gmail.com
Iacobucci’s article highlights NHS plans to prepare for the winter and tackle urgent and emergency care (UEC) challenges. The plans fail, however, to confront the impact these measures might have on the already strained workforce.1
For several years the NHS has grappled with chronic staffing problems, exacerbated by escalating sickness absence rates among UEC staff. While the UEC delivery …