Dr Graham Turner, Medical Director for Totally Healthcare and Clinical Lead for Endoscopy and Gastroenterology at the Belfast Trust, describes how he has worked with hospitals to understand how new guidance can be combined into standard working practice to continue rolling out insourcing services across the UK and Ireland.
I’m sure I am not alone in wondering where the first half of 2020 has gone and how our world of healthcare has changed in what seems like the blink of an eye. Huge efforts and sacrifices by society and key workers have required us to adapt our day-to-day lives significantly. Many of the UK’s core healthcare services were paused to direct important resources towards managing the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to the horrible toll of COVID-19 itself, this pause has created its own difficulties for patients and medical teams alike.
As the number of cases of COVID-19 falls, our focus has shifted back to rebuilding our services and in the world of endoscopy, there are new challenges to overcome. It has been a privilege, once again, to witness our teams coming together and creating ways to adapt to the new realm of social distancing and enhanced PPE. New ways of working have been and continue to be developed across the entire healthcare system.
Totally plc (LON:TLY) addresses the challenges of increased demand on healthcare services by delivering high-quality planned, urgent and insourcing healthcare across the UK and Ireland.
