This weekend I worked shifts as a doctor in my local A&E to help take some of the strain off my colleagues. During this crisis, we all need to pull together and do our bit.

What I saw was deeply eye-opening. Staff searching for face masks so they could start their shifts, the emergency department inundated with sick patients, and fit and healthy young people, in their 30s and 40s, fighting for their lives, because of Covid-19.

Soon, NHS staff may have to make impossible decisions about whose life can be saved. These choices, on top of the huge responsibility placed on the shoulders of frontline workers, takes a huge toll on staff mental health.

My colleagues across the country are frightened – frightened for their own health, frightened about passing Covid-19 onto their own loved ones, and frightened about passing it onto their patients.