{"id":66237,"date":"2020-03-25T15:09:58","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T14:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/?p=66237"},"modified":"2020-03-25T15:09:58","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T14:09:58","slug":"250k-people-have-signed-up-to-help-the-nhs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/250k-people-have-signed-up-to-help-the-nhs\/","title":{"rendered":"250k People Have Signed Up To Help The NHS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In a single day over 250,000 people have signed up the help the NHS in any way they can.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9997\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9997\" class=\"wp-image-9997 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/11\/nhs-e1543318143321-300x97.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"97\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/11\/nhs-e1543318143321-300x97.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/11\/nhs-e1543318143321-768x247.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/11\/nhs-e1543318143321-1024x330.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/11\/nhs-e1543318143321-624x201.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/11\/nhs-e1543318143321-750x242.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/11\/nhs-e1543318143321.jpg 1689w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9997\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Officials are blown away at the people of the UKs good will.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Around 11,000 former health workers have already agreed to come back and work, and as mentioned in an earlier article, more than 24,000 final year nursing and medical students will be joining them.<\/p>\n<p>The programme only went ahead yesterday, on Tuesday, as the government set out to recruit people who were 18+ and in good health to help with delivering food and medicines, driving vulnerable people to appointments, and making phone calls to those strictly isolated.<\/p>\n<p>The NHS medical director said he was \u201cbowled over\u201d by the \u201caltruism\u201d displayed by all those wanting to help.<\/p>\n<p>Those who have volunteered have said that they \u201cwant to do good\u201d, and even those working from home have signed up, giving up the little time they \u00a0may have. This move is unprecedented as no other country has really done this yet.<\/p>\n<p>Everyones hard work is appreciated and it will be interesting, and hopefully a relief to see all these peoples good work pay off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a single day over 250,000 people have signed up the help the NHS in any way they can. Around 11,000 former health workers have already agreed to come back and work, and as mentioned in an earlier article, more than 24,000 final year nursing and medical students will be joining them. 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