Lockdown lifted, but as anticipated, life and work are different and challenging. Several weeks of regular clapping for the NHS was surely more than might have been expected and fraught with the possibility of a less than enthusiastic aftermath. The Daily Telegraph of 14 July featured Alison Pearson's regular column trumpeting support for her opinion, expressed a week earlier, that the NHS had abandoned patients in need to cope with COVID-19. GPs were singled out for harsh criticism. This is at odds with the experience of working throughout lockdown to provide care for patients, physically ill or very anxious, but very reluctant to come anywhere near a doctor's surgery.
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