As the second spike in covid-19 cases grows, we want to take stock of what's happening in the NHS. In these second wave updates, clinicians from primary care, secondary care, and public health, discuss what is happening in their field, and put questions to experts.

In this podcast, Fiona Godlee, editor in chief of The BMJ talks to Matt Morgan, consultant in intensive care medicine in Cardiff and Helen Salisbury, GP in Oxfordshire - they discuss how full hospitals are getting, how many covid-19 cases are presenting in primary care, and how treating patients has fared as the pandemic hots up.

For more on covid-19 visit https://www.bmj.com/coronavirus