Films

A series of contemporary film portraits of health professionals who worked in and around Newham University Hospital during the first wave of the pandemic. Shot in a DIY and conversational format in artist's studio over the summer of 2020, the portraits expose the complexity of the workers’ experiences, both the challenging and beautiful. The films focus on how humans cope during an extraordinary moment and how this compares to the official narrative we see in the media. Their stories reveal their moral struggles, resulting mental health challenges and frustrations, but they also speak of their resilience in team work and peer support, and the hope that health inequalities can finally be addressed.

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Keywords: Accident and Emergency (A&E), Death from Covid, Teamwork, Impact on family, Lockdown, Public Health, Moral injury, Preparedness, Care Homes, Leadership, Difficult conversations, PPE; Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Midwifery; Faith, Management roles, Health inequalities, Covid messaging, Intensive Treatment Unit (ITU), High Dependency Unit (HDU), Mental Health Services, Covid testing, Covid Policy, Radiology.

97 video files and 194 document files

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