Watch the Microsoft Teams talk with Dr Haigh as he reflects on the extraordinary onset of the pandemic in 2020 and how our hospital teams have been responding ever since. From meeting the first ‘super spreader’ to the incredible breakthrough of vaccines that broke the link between infection and severe illness.
Read moreBBC South East visit The County Hospital ICU May 2020
11th March 2022BBC South East revisit The County Hospital in 2021
11th March 2022Rainbow eye tapestry
4th February 2022At the start of the pandemic in 2020, a project called Shared Hearts was set up by our Critical Care team to support loved ones of patients who had sadly died of Covid. I created this tapestry by hand stitching over 125,000 individual pieces of yarn over a 4 month period.
Read moreFear, anxiety and survivor’s guilt
24th January 2022Where to start, that’s the first thing I find myself asking. This year has been like no other, at home and my career to date….
Read moreIf you only had one hour left with your loved one, what would you say…
24th January 2022For three weeks I have been working on Ford, which is a ward of covid positive patients who are deemed not suitable for escalation beyond steroids and oxygen support….
Read moreA tale of togetherness
20th January 2022Physio feedback working on ICU during Covid.
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Silver linings
11th January 2022When we heard the first time about covid it seemed to be just an incident in China and it wouldn’t bother us at all…
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Then came New Year’s Eve, a day I will never forget…
4th January 2022I will never forget how it felt donning for the first time. My hands shaking and the tension in the air palpable as I pulled down my visor and took a deep breath and pushed the ITU doors open….
Read moreReflections of a Chaplain: demanding, heart breaking and a huge privilege
17th November 2021As chaplains our team has been present on the wards throughout the pandemic. Our role has been to support not only the patients but also relatives and members of staff…..
Read moreA minute’s silence…
17th November 2021Today was very poignant… Standing beside my physio colleagues in critical care, alongside nurses, doctors, pharmacists, OT’s, Ward Clerks, and our patients… Holding a minute silence…….
Read moreWaving to our colleague
17th November 2021One of our Porters had been in ITU with Covid and as a department we were extremely worried about our colleague.
Read moreSupporting collaborative working
15th October 2021Our hospital was the first hospital to have a patient with Covid-19 in early February 2020, at that point I was not bothered and got caught up in the excitement that I may walk past a camera and be on the BBC news in the background…
Read moreI have a little cry myself right there at the nurses station…
15th October 2021I stand at the bedside, holding up an iPad so that my dying patient’s family can say goodbye to their mother, their grandmother, their auntie…
Read moreThe night before my first shift, I couldn’t sleep…
15th October 2021I started in my new role as a Macmillan Associate CNS in January 2020 but the first wave of Covid-19 hit us, and I was redeployed to Critical Care in March 2020.
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