"If someone could see what we see I think they would think twice about how they spend Christmas"
direct to your inboxThousands of families will this week decide how they are going to spend Christmas amid the easing of restrictions allowing up to three households to meet.Many front line NHS workers, like paramedic Ken Hodkinson, will spend that same period in a state of suspense, waiting to see how the choices that people make now will play out for their patients in the new year.Ten months into the pandemic, medics and health care workers know all too well how the aftershocks of a Covid infection spike would be felt; in the crowded wards, the queues of ambulances, the absent colleagues, in the lives they battle to save and, sadly, those they cannot.Last month, as the second wave infection rates rose, the North West Ambulance Service