| Id |
Subject |
Object |
Predicate |
Lexical cue |
| T148 |
0-303 |
Sentence |
denotes |
In the past, there have been cases where doctors were deployed to aid in a humanitarian cause such as the Ebola virus disease in West Africa or as military medics however there is nothing reported in the literature in the UK or other countries regarding a national scale redeployment across specialties. |
| T149 |
304-905 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Currently there are a few emerging descriptive reports of changes in working pattern in COVID-19 where orthopedic surgeons were redeployed to the emergency room10 and the neurology department was re-structured to support the rest of the hospital to cope with COVID-19 related emergencies in the United States.11 In the UK, the NHS England has produced a guidance on “Redeploying your secondary care medical workforce safely” to support critical care services in pandemic, ophthalmology being one of the specialties to be redeployed.4 Ophthalmology represents a significant medical workforce in the UK. |
| T150 |
906-1255 |
Sentence |
denotes |
There are 135 NHS trusts which provide ophthalmic services with 1482 ophthalmic consultants, 662 staff grade, associate specialist and specialty grade doctors (SAS), and 706 ophthalmologists in training.12 Certainly in the authors’ trust, ophthalmology registrars and fellows are one of the few groups of doctors who have been redeployed to the ICU. |
