Department of Colorectal Surgery, The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust, Harlow, UK.
Department of Vascular Surgery, Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Bedford Hospital, Bedford, UK.
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COVID-19 has caused a global healthcare crisis with increasing number of people getting infected and dying each day. Different countries have tried to control its spread by applying the basic principles of social distancing and testing. Healthcare professionals have been the frontline workers globally with different opinions regarding the preparation and management of this pandemic. We aim to get the opinion of healthcare professionals in United Kingdom regarding their perceptions of preparedness in their workplace and general views of current pandemic management strategy.
A questionnaire survey, drafted using Google Forms, was distributed among healthcare professionals working in the National Health Service (NHS) across the United Kingdom. The study was kept open for the first 2 weeks of April 2020.
A total of 1007 responses were obtained with majority of the responses from England (n = 850, 84.40%). There were 670 (66.53%) responses from doctors and 204 (20.26%) from nurses. Most of the respondents (95.23%) had direct patient contact in day to day activity. Only one third of the respondents agreed that they felt supported at their trust and half of the respondents reported that adequate training was provided to the frontline staff. Two-thirds of the respondents were of the view that there was not enough Personal Protective Equipment available while 80% thought that this pandemic has improved their hand washing practice. Most of the respondents were in the favour of an earlier lockdown (90%) and testing all the NHS frontline staff (94%).
Despite current efforts, it would seem this is not translating to a sense of security amongst the UK NHS workforce in terms of how they feel trained and protected. It is vital that healthcare professionals have adequate support and protection at their workplace and that these aspects be actively monitored.
COVID-19 造成了全球医疗保健危机，每天感染和死亡的人数不断增加。不同国家通过应用社交距离和检测的基本原则来试图控制其传播。全球的医疗保健专业人员一直是前线工作人员，对于这场大流行的准备和管理存在不同的意见。我们旨在了解英国医疗保健专业人员对其工作场所准备情况的看法以及对当前大流行管理策略的总体看法。
使用 Google 表单起草了一份问卷调查报告，在英国国家卫生服务（NHS）工作的医疗保健专业人员中进行了分发。该研究于 2020 年 4 月的前两周内开放。
共收到 1007 份回复，其中大部分来自英格兰（n=850，84.40%）。有 670 名（66.53%）医生和 204 名（20.26%）护士做出了回应。大多数受访者（95.23%）在日常活动中有直接的患者接触。只有三分之一的受访者表示他们在自己的信托基金中感到受到支持，而一半的受访者报告说为一线工作人员提供了足够的培训。三分之二的受访者认为没有足够的个人防护设备，而 80%的人认为这场大流行提高了他们的洗手习惯。大多数受访者赞成更早地封锁（90%）并对所有 NHS 一线员工进行检测（94%）。
尽管目前已经做出了努力，但这似乎并没有转化为英国 NHS 工作人员在培训和保护方面的安全感。至关重要的是，医疗保健专业人员在工作场所得到足够的支持和保护，并且这些方面得到积极监测。
