Restricted access to the NHS during the COVID-19 pandemic: Is it time to move away from the rationed clinical response?

Affiliations

• ¹ Consultant Physician & COVID Co-Lead, Lorn & Islands Hospital, Oban, NHS Highlands, Scotland, UK; Clinical Lecturer, Health Systems, University of Gibraltar, Gibraltar.
• ² Researcher, COVID-19 Team, Public Health Gibraltar; Clinical Lecturer, Postgraduate Medical School, University of Gibraltar.
• ³ Senior House Officer in General Internal Medicine and Covid-19 Response Co-ordinator, Lorn & Islands Hospital, Oban, NHS Highlands, Scotland, UK.
• ⁴ Senior Clinical Lead, Covid-19 Remote Monitoring of Patients During Response & Recovery, NHS Grampian, Scotland, UK.
• ⁵ Consultant Physician, Covid Co-Lead, Lorn & Islands Hospital, Oban, NHS Highlands, Scotland, UK.
• ⁶ Consultant Acute Medicine, Raigmore Hospital, NHS Highlands, Inverness, Scotland, UK.
• ⁷ Consultant Respiratory Physician, Raigmore Hospital, NHS Highlands, Inverness, Scotland, UK.
• ⁸ General Practitioner, Burnfield Medical Practice, NHS Highlands, Scotland, UK.
• ⁹ Head of Clinical Governance and GMC Suitable Person, Gibraltar Health Authority, Gibraltar (formerly Consultant in Paediatric Emergency Medicine and Medical Director Sheffield Children's NHS FT).
• ¹⁰ Professor of Acute Ambulatory Care, University of Warwick; Clinical Lead for Ambulatory Outreach Team, Oxford University Hospital, Oxford, UK.