TY - JOUR T1 - A review of the clinical assistant workforce during COVID-19 at a district general hospital JF - Future Healthcare Journal JO - Future Healthc J SP - 26 LP - 27 DO - 10.7861/fhj.8-1-s26 VL - 8 IS - Suppl 1 AU - Mohamed Idil AU - Nicole Brown AU - Michaela Rogers AU - Sebastian Moshtael AU - Ben Smith AU - Chris Rimmer AU - Adeel Hamad AU - Angela Yan Y1 - 2021/03/01 UR - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/8/Suppl_1/26.abstract N2 - COVID-19 forced UK medical schools to suspend teaching, placements and exams in March 2020. Left with months of free time, a significant proportion of medical students joined the NHS.1 At Northampton General Hospital (NGH), a new workforce of paid clinical assistants (CAs) were quickly trained to contribute to the pandemic response from April 2020. This project aimed to explore both participants’ and clinicians’ perceptions of this novel scheme.Two separate questionnaires were designed for CAs and clinicians, investigating their ideas of the scheme’s successes, failures and impact on medical education using a mixture of open and closed questions. … ER -