Intensive Care and CoronaVirus

Great shots, for once the whole of the country has been affected by something which can't be ignored. Some have paid the ultimate price, some have yet to see what will happen to them both physically and also financially, I did hope this would pull the nation or even world together, but maybe not...

Anyway, many thanks for sharing those :)
 
What an amazing set of images - thank you for sharing.
 
What an amazing set of images - thank you for sharing.

I repeat the above.
Does beg the question, why were these services "Already severely stretched", as I wasn't aware of any particular disease doing the rounds. Or had it been the case of economises, closing isolation wards which aren't being used so as to "Save" money?
 
Evening

As a few folk in here may know, I’m a consultant in ICU. A good friend in another busy ICU managed to document a few photos and have shared them on a website. Photographer is Matthew Jones and these brought out a lot of emotions for me.

Worth a look


https://www.careinacrisis.org


Fantastic photos and a great idea to reveal what must be a hidden world of hard work, joy, sadness and grief right under our noses, yet invisible to many and gone unnoticed.

Reminds me of when my wife was a paediatric nurse in oncology. Too much sadness unfortunately.
 
Shaheed - thanks for sharing these images... truly moving. I'm currently working for the NHS, very "rear echelon" stuff - bean counting basically, but have been very involved with the facilitation of the procurement ramp-up involved with the setup of the Nightingales around the country. Saw these last night, and basically had to dive out to the facebook page and share it with all the members of my team, just as a reminder that what we're doing is valuable, because it lets people be able to do what's being done in those photos... Hopefully, it'll give a boost to our teams morale to realise how important that order for facemasks, or ppe, or gloves, or coveralls is...

And perhaps more importantly, thanks for everything YOU'RE doing out there...
 
Very moving
 
Thanking you so so much Sir, you are all angels whom we admire dearly, all of you, forever & ever

May god be with you & protect you all

Thank you

Thank you

Thank you
 
Evening

As a few folk in here may know, I’m a consultant in ICU. A good friend in another busy ICU managed to document a few photos and have shared them on a website. Photographer is Matthew Jones and these brought out a lot of emotions for me.

Worth a look


https://www.careinacrisis.org
Shaheed,
Very moving pictures, thanks for sharing them.
I hope that you've been able to take a step back, now that the situation has eased off a bit, and are no longer working silly hours under immense pressure.
 
I have a sister who works in James Cook, I'll send her the link.
 
Fantastic photos and a great idea to reveal what must be a hidden world of hard work, joy, sadness and grief right under our noses, yet invisible to many and gone unnoticed.

There's a reason for the invisibility.

The Government, together with Public Health England, actively blocked the press from documenting the crisis.
 
There's a reason for the invisibility.

The Government, together with Public Health England, actively blocked the press from documenting the crisis.

I never knew that, but like any hospital ward I wouldn't expect camera crews to be roaming the corridors; wouldn't that be a little bit invasive?
 
No idea what the default policy is in other nations but in NHS Scotland the (commercial/journalism) filming/photography policy is essentially "gonnae no dae that" even in public areas within the buildings. Permission can of course be sought and sometimes is granted. Most times the journos will be kept out in the car park for filming their pieces to camera though.

Wards are exponentially harder to get permission to film/photograph in (mostly for patient confidentiality reasons also infection control) and ITU is currently like Fort Knox but with extra restrictions (for infection control reasons).
 
At this time a Covid ward was absolutely no place for a journalist or their photographer - there is no way any but essential staff and patients should be allowed anywhere near, PPE or otherwise. Entirely different for someone working there to take pictures of course, and this is real legacy work.
 
I never knew that, but like any hospital ward I wouldn't expect camera crews to be roaming the corridors; wouldn't that be a little bit invasive?

Not during a national crisis when documenting it is essential.

There have been roughly ten decent accesses granted across the whole country, which is somewhat pathetic, and those have been incredibly hard fought for by the journalists involved.
 
At this time a Covid ward was absolutely no place for a journalist or their photographer - there is no way any but essential staff and patients should be allowed anywhere near, PPE or otherwise. Entirely different for someone working there to take pictures of course, and this is real legacy work.

Sorry but you are wrong. It is/was absolutely the place for a photographer to be to document what was happening.

Edited to add:

There would be no difference in a consultant or a photographer having access - because when he is using a camera, the consultant isn't doing the job that he is paid to do.

On the other hand, a dispassionate press photographer would have produced a much more rounded and varied set of images.
No disrespect to the consultant, what he has published is decent work, but the images are all very much of the same genre.
 
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I'm not sure this is the best thread for such a discussion? It would be an interesting debate in the Out of Focus/Hot Topics forum.
 
Sorry but you are wrong. It is/was absolutely the place for a photographer to be to document what was happening.

Edited to add:

There would be no difference in a consultant or a photographer having access - because when he is using a camera, the consultant isn't doing the job that he is paid to do.

On the other hand, a dispassionate press photographer would have produced a much more rounded and varied set of images.
No disrespect to the consultant, what he has published is decent work, but the images are all very much of the same genre.

The counter to that is that someone known to staff might produce more intimate, off guard, pictures., and press photographers can produce clichéd, one dimensional, work too.

There's a place for both IMO. But there has been a record made.

Although records are never complete or unbiased, and they are open to interpretation in the way they are presented.
 
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