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Liz Ashley is a Consultant Cardiothoracic Anaesthetist in London.\\xa0 She discusses her first-hand experience of COVID as the pandemic hit London. \\xa0
She describes how the reaction of fear for the NHS, effectively closed a significant part of the healthcare sector and how it feels that the 'powers that be' may have utlised the pandemic as a paralysing agent for the Private Sector.