Sam
and Jenny, childcare support for NHS workers
Sam Bresland and Jenny Pewsey are
5th year medics seeing the cohort in the year above fast-tracked
through graduation. This experience has propelled them to find ways to support
NHS staff by setting up the Edinburgh branch of MedicShare: a way for medical
students and others to provide childcare for NHS workers. Sam and Jenny tell us
about their work with MedicShare, and how they themselves are managing the
social distancing, and finding different levels of interpretation and conscientiousness
about what ‘distancing’ means. We also talk about where they were when the
lockdown happened – a moment in time that almost froze us in whatever location
we happened to be at the time.