UEA has offered accommodation to NHS frontline officers during the on-going pandemic. After allowing students early release from their accommodation contracts, UEA has offered the empty rooms to NHS staff. There are currently 68 Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (NNUH) and Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust (NCHC) staff staying in…
Interview
NHS Workers- Compassion amidst COVID-19
“They can’t have any family beside them when they die.” Says an NHS front line worker over the phone to me. She sounds tired, exhausted even. Who can blame her though? Palliative care is no easy job ordinarily, let alone in the midst of a global health pandemic. She continues her point. “So I’m there…
Sport
Students run 10,200km in their gardens to raise money for the NHS
At 8pm on the 30th of April, members of the Cambridge University Air Squadron (CUAS) joined their fellow squadrons around the country in embarking on a 10,200km continuous relay in their gardens. This distance is equivalent to that between the RAF’s most northerly base, RAF Lossiemouth in Scotland, and most easterly base, RAF Akrotiri in…
News
Sportspark offers free day-care for NHS workers’ children
UEA Sportspark has re-opened to provide day-care for the children of frontline NHS workers. The Sportspark will open between 8am and 8pm on weekdays. As well as being looked after by staff, the children will also be allowed to make use of the Sportspark’s award-winning facilities, which include an Olympic swimming pool. Volunteers and Sportspark…
News
Testing centres and scientific partnerships: how Norwich is fighting coronavirus
A drive-through testing centre at Norwich Research Park is one measure scientists and NHS staff are taking in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. Scientists from UEA have joined staff at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital (NNUH) as well as volunteers from each research organisation at Norwich Research Park to work at isolating and…
Comment
The NHS Clap is representative of the worst parts of the British government and people
The clock strikes 8, and in suburban England, the white middle-England crowds stand on their modest doorsteps and perform The Clap for an abstracted and white-washed image of the NHS. This clapping is symptomatic of a hyper individualistic and cognitively dissonant British exceptionalism. The cherry on the top is a thinly veiled racism planted at…