TY - JOUR T1 - Was enough, and is enough, being done to protect the primary care workforce from COVID-19? JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 100 LP - 101 DO - 10.3399/bjgp21X714953 VL - 71 IS - 704 AU - Denise Kendrick AU - Raymond M Agius AU - John FR Robertson AU - Herb F Sewell AU - Marcia Stewart Y1 - 2021/03/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/71/704/100.abstract N2 - There is clear evidence that healthcare workers (HCWs) are at increased risk of contracting COVID-19. Compared to nonessential workers, HCWs have a seven-fold increase in risk of severe COVID-19 (testing positive in hospital or death).1 Frontline, or patient-facing, HCWs have a three-fold increase in risk of testing positive for COVID-19 compared to the general population.2 Compared to non-patient facing HCWs they have a three-fold risk, and their household members have a two-fold risk of hospital admission with COVID-19.3 COVID-19 risk is also specialty dependent: ‘front-door’ speciality HCWs (A&E, medical specialties including general, acute, and geriatric medicine, and infectious diseases) are at increased risk compared to intensive care HCWs,3 who in some studies had a lower risk than other HCWs.4The only publicly available data on COVID-19-related deaths of doctors in the UK comes from tributes in the medical press, … ER -