Councillor Andy Swain - Teign Valley (TDC)

14 Feb 2021

Cllr Andy Swain

Andy Swain
Andy Swain

Ward: Teign Valley

Parishes: Ashton ; Bridford ; Christow ; Doddiscombsleigh ; Dunsford ; Hennock ; Tedburn St Mary ; Trusham

Contact information

Mobile:  07756 253908

Email:  andrew.swain@teignbridge.gov.uk

Committee appointments

Term of Office

  • 07/05/2019 - 13/05/2023

Andy's News

Dr Wendy Taylor NHS

From the front line - trying to protect the mental health of those working to keep us safe and healthy

Medicine is a stressful profession. It's what I tell potential medical students when they come for interview. I tell them they will have to cope with making mistakes, with looking after patients for whom there is little more they can do to help and with patients who die. They need mental resilience. But the last 6 months has been beyond anything any of us have had to deal with before, or could ever have imagined. And of course it's not just doctors who've been affected, but nurses, allied medical professionals, ambulance drivers, and staff in the community - in care homes, in domiciliary care and in public health. Staff who were already under pressure and over-stretched due to staff vacancies and increasing demand, having to work even harder, due to large numbers of COVID patients and colleagues off sick

26 Sep 2020
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