Opinion: The NHS is facing the challenge of a lifetime – and staff need more help

The commitment and compassion from staff is something we have long come to expect, but should never take for granted

Another key concern is testing. The World Health Organisation wants us to “test, test, test” to beat the virus. The NHS is rapidly scaling up testing capacity from 1,500 to 25,000 tests a day. We are seeing pathology staff redeployed and laboratory space re-purposed to support this effort. But the focus, for now, is on testing patients rather than NHS staff. So when those staff - or people they live with – have suspected coronavirus symptoms, they are rightly going into isolation.

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