Nurse Kerry Holden has spent 2020 on the frontline helping patients recover from Covid-19. Here, she explains why it’s vital that people get the vaccine to help prevent the NHS from becoming overwhelmed …
There have been moments over the past nine months when Kerry Holden has sat in an office on a Gloucestershire Royal hospital ward and “had a little cry in the corner”. Most recently, it happened when reflecting on the more than 600 NHS and healthcare workers who died after contracting the virus.
As Holden, a lead nurse for infection prevention at Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS foundation trust, says: “Reading that list of names, even now, brings a tear to my eye. It was heartbreaking to think those people came to work and lost their lives.”
