Amy’s story comes at a time when new donors are needed urgently amidst falling numbers of people signing up to donor registers, as planned large scale donor recruitment and awareness sessions cannot be run due to COVID-19, but individuals can still request to join the register independently.
The Coronavirus pandemic has had a profound impact on many people’s physical health around the world, including in the UK, but how can we measure the effect it has had on people’s mental health?
Matthew, who suffers with mild asthma, began to feel unwell whilst at home with his family. He knew something wasn’t right, and began to feel worse and worse.
Teams at Nottingham University Hospitals have worked tirelessly since the start of Covid-19 to protect operating capacity for cancer patients and those in need of urgent surgery, and have now completed 1000 operations of this kind during lockdown.
Patients with one of the most common blood cancers are amongst those helping researchers at Nottingham University Hospitals understand more about the impact of COVID-19 on patients undergoing immunosuppression.
