Podcasts by The NHS Front Line
Recordings with frontline staff at Bradford Royal Infirmary, taking you behind the scenes on the wards as they plan for the onset of COVID-19 and then cope as the patients arrive.
Further podcasts by BBC Radio 4
Podcast on the topic Gesundheit und Fitness
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Week 10 on the covid wards from 2020-05-26T17:12
Eighteen-year-old Marium fell ill at the same time as her brothers and sisters – whilst they all recovered she just got worse and a week into the illness she was struggling to breathe and couldn...
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Week 9 on the covid wards from 2020-05-19T15:46
Doctors in the UK are developing new ways of helping patients as they leave the hospital covid wards. Many will require medical follow up as they continue to recover at home and a new system pro...
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Week 8 on the covid wards from 2020-05-12T16:11
As the death toll continues to rise across the world, doctors are keen to learn from the spread of the virus so far and particularly how it took hold in large gatherings, with huge ripple effect...
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Week 7 on the covid wards from 2020-05-05T14:31
Dr John Wright has been recording on the wards for BBC Radio 4 – starting on March 16th, the day the Prime Minister gave his first televised address about the danger of Covid-19. This is week se...
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Week 6 on the covid wards from 2020-04-28T15:11
Dr John Wright has been recording on the wards for BBC Radio 4 – starting on March 16th, the day the Prime Minister gave his first televised address about the danger of Covid-19. This is week si...
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Week 5 on the covid wards from 2020-04-21T13:15
Dr John Wright has been recording on the wards for BBC Radio 4 – starting on March 16th, the day the Prime Minister gave his first televised address about the danger of Covid-19. This is week fi...
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Week 4 on the covid wards from 2020-04-14T10:04
In this programme Dr John Wright and doctors at the Bradford Royal Infirmary are recruiting Covid-19 patients into the largest study of its kind: it's a race against time in the search for possi...
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Week 3 on the covid wards from 2020-04-07T15:25
The prospect of keeping families apart at the time of death is so new to medical staff in the UK that it is hard to process alongside everything else that this pandemic has thrown into turmoil. ...
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Week 2 on the covid wards from 2020-03-31T12:49
As increasing numbers of Covid-19 patients are needing medical care the efforts of doctors and nurses are being hampered by sickness in their own ranks. The spread of the virus appears to be hit...
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Week 1 on the covid wards from 2020-03-27T17:07
This series takes you inside the Covid wards in one of the UK's busiest teaching hospitals. The recordings are all made by Dr John Wright, who is helping prepare for the pandemic and speaks to t...
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