In this episode, Helen West is joined by Duncan, a 3rd year nursing student who has been redeployed to work in the NHS as part of the UK response to COVID-19. He talks about some of the challenges and defining moments, and how he’s coped with these experiences.

If you’re a medical, nursing or allied health student, and you’d like to talk on the podcast about your experiences of working or studying during the COVID-19 pandemic, please get in touch with us.

Contact us at: covidpod@liverpool.ac.uk

If you need support, here are a few of our recommendations:

University of Liverpool Student Support Services (for nursing, allied health and other students at the University of Liverpool) https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/studentsupport/

School of Medicine Wellbeing Team (for medical students at the University of Liverpool) wellbeing.mbchb@liverpool.ac.uk

Employee Assistance Programme (for staff at the University of Liverpool) https://staff.liverpool.ac.uk/our-workplace-and-community/support-and-development/employee-assistance-programme/)

NHS Staff Support Line https://people.nhs.uk/help/

Your GP Samaritans free phoneline: 116 123

jo@samaritans.org

www.samaritans.org

Papyrus 0800 068 41 41

https://papyrus-uk.org/