Much advice and guidance about discharging patients to care homes has been issued in a short space of time. We have produced this summary to help our members and their hospitals assist their patients and care services.
Clearer data is now emerging on specific risk factors for individuals relating to COVID-19 infection. Proper risk assessments for medical staff are therefore imperative, but this is a big challenge given the large number of staff to be assessed and underfunded occupational health departments.
As COVID-19 puts significant pressure on the NHS, many clinical academics are being asked, or requesting, to return to clinical duties to support patient care.
On the 12 March 2020 the trainee committees of the three Royal Colleges of Physicians came together to jointly publish the statement below to provide guidance to trainee doctors.
The RCP can help international doctors who have already found a suitable post in the UK (route A), and also frequently interviews applicants in their own country before matching successful candidates to suitable posts (route B).