From NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, today:
Accelerated development of antibody testing for coronavirus:
Accurate and reliable testing is a key pillar of the COVID-19 response strategy around the world and a key component of the safe and managed easing of current lockdown restrictions.
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde is collaborating on the development of an accurate and reliable antibody test in the fight against COVID-19. Using a finger prick blood sample, the test will establish if a person has acquired antibodies to the COVID-19 virus. The presence of antibodies as markers of viral immunity is widely used in clinical practice to indicate exposure to a virus and a degree of immunity.
121 new doctors:
121 junior doctors have started their medical careers early as they join NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde clinical staff in the fight against COVID-19. All have volunteered to join the frontline and will be supported immensely by their colleagues, supervisors, mentors and a peer buddy system. They will work in surgery, medicine and care of the elderly and will likely be treating patients with suspected and confirmed COVID-19.
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
Good and let all wish them every success and it has a high reliability factor and can go into mass production quickly BUT properly so and we have the ability to trace all contacts of positive tests and monitor efficiently
The nations who do so will go a very long way to mitigate the fiscal damage and construct a new way to get on with life
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Wonder how early they’re talking? When I was nursing the times when junior docs began in hospital was a time of humour and despair in equal measures.
Humour at the myriad of weird methods used by the newbies and despair that we’d have to start retraining said newbies into actual safe ‘doctoring’!
To those starting early Good luck and to staff helping them also Good luck! 😀
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Hi mogabee4 #
Don’t know when you were last nursing, but ‘Medical Students’ now and for quite sometime are in hospitals and on wards with patients from the very start of their long training, usually around their 3rd month.
These newly qualified Junior Doctors will be extremely capable of talking their place on the wards.
Good luck to them at the start of hopefully a long and successful career and thank you for your efforts at this difficult time.
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Then nothing has changed! Post med school many juniors have ‘quirks’ that need ironed out if they are to be any use in hospital setting!
Believe me those who don’t listen to advice from nurses never become good with patients. 🙂
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In my experience the majority of nursing staff have no time for new junior docs. By that I don’t mean the nurses are rushed of their feet, they are not.
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