Success And Innovation In Response To An Unforgiving Pandemic Elsie Mensah, Consultant Urologist1 Anna Goodman, Senior Specialist Lead for CMDU1 Daghni Rajasingam, Deputy Medical Director1 1 Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust The onslaught of the COVID 19 pandemic has had a pervasive effect on lives and organisations across the country and particularly on the National Health Service. Guy’s and St. Thomas’s has been at the heart of the NHS Covid -19 response from the onset. From the utilisation of systems and expertise through the trust’s High Consequence Infectious Disease Centre, and the rapid expansion of our critical care capacity, the trust rose to the challenge of meeting the evolving needs of patients. There was rapid redeployment and retraining of staff, implementation of new pathways and processes, all requiring careful leadership to ensure that service needs were met, whilst ensuring staff who were themselves going through the effects of the pandemic continued to be supported. There was also the successful roll-out of the Covid-19 vaccination program which spectacularly served employees, patients and indeed our prime minister!
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