When we win

Poem ‘When we win’ – submitted by Nikhil, Consultant Paediatrician

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Rainbow eye tapestry

At 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.

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Saving lives with pulse oximeters

We decided in September of 2020 to send Pulse Oximeters to our clinically extremely vulnerable haematology patients who tested positive for Covid, to help us spot signs of a drop in oxygen levels.

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Reflections of a Ward Technologist

I joined the NHS a year before COVID-19 and even then, we shared memories and moments that will stay with us forever however the pandemic was like nothing we’ve ever experienced before, it was scary and confusing to say the least.

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Research at surge speed

My lasting memory of the year is not a hospital memory but of the first urgent Covid-19 related application we had at the Brighton and Sussex Research Ethics Committee….

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