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

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.

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COVID-19 redeployment triage mental health PPE

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