The frontline: doctors and nurses recount coronavirus battle from inside West Country hospitals

• Meet the NHS support workers who are helping to keep our hospitals running throughout the Coronavirus crisis

The NHS has never known a time like this - it is history in the making.

Staff are working tirelessly to save lives while risking their own and putting themselves in harm's way.

But what is the reality for doctors and nurses on the hospital frontlines across the south west?

Here they give us an insight in their own words.

• Constant washing in intensive care is the new normal

• Layers of PPE are hot and exhausting

• Student nurses are learning on the job

• Communication with bereaved families has changed

• MARY BARRATT Patient Safety Manager, Royal United Hospitals Bath

• KATE TANTAM Intensive Care Nurse, Derriford Hospital

• CHLOE ILSLEY Student Nurse, Bristol Royal Infirmary

• DR GARETH WRATHALL Director of Intensive Care, Southmead Hospital

• HOLLIE ARBERRY Student Nurse, Bristol Royal Infirmary

• ELEANOR MCCARTHY Nurse, Bristol Royal Infirmary

• MARIANN CHARKTON Educator, RUH Intensive Care

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