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Samantha Batt-Rawden

Dr Samantha Batt-Rawden is a senior registrar in intensive care medicine

<p>The NHS has faced a number of challenges during the past year</p>

We need to stop calling NHS staff heroes – for a very important reason

<p>NHS staff are facing a number of difficulties over the increase in Covid-19 cases</p>

As a critical care doctor, I’m scared of what the NHS is facing

Alfie Evans' parents tried to discharge him from hospital

As a doctor and a mother, the Alfie Evans case makes me angry