Our NHS workers are the most valuable resource we have. We must protect them

Writing this in early 2021, the world of January 2020 seems like a far-flung land.

To reach back there over the expanse of the pandemic, the successive tsunamis of Covid and suffering of the public and our health service is like visiting a forgotten and distant dimension far removed from today’s reality.

Initially, once the first lockdown hit in late March, there was an outpouring of public support. Although we knew little about Covid-19, and the prognosis appeared bleak for our overstretched, under-resourced health system struggling