Military called in to help NHS hospital with ‘significant’ staff sickness levels

Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital has three times as many Covid-19 patients as at the height of the first wave (Jeremy Durkin/PA)

An NHS hospital is bringing in military personnel trained in healthcare roles as it struggles with staff sickness amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

Erika Denton, medical director of Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, said: “We have some help coming from military colleagues, with 30 military personnel who are trained a bit like our healthcare assistants – slightly different role.