Table 2.

Participant demographics

	Sample (n=46)	Percentage total (%)
Role
Doctor	28	60.87
Nurse	8	17.39
Medical associate professional*	4	8.70
Pharmacist	2	4.35
Dietician	1	2.17
Speech and language therapist	1	2.17
Clinical support staff	1	2.17
Management	1	2.17
Sector
Secondary and tertiary care (general and specialist hospitals)	40	86.96
Primary care†	4	8.70
Specialist community services†	2	4.35
Secondary and tertiary care specialities
Critical care and anaesthesia‡	27	67.50
Respiratory and COVID-19 wards	6	15.00
Emergency medicine	4	10.00
Cancer specialist services	1	2.50
Palliative care	1	2.50
Infection prevention and control services	1	2.50
Redeployment status
Redeployed	23	50.00
Not redeployed	23	50.00
Ethnicity§
White	40	86.96
Mixed or multiple ethnic groups	3	6.52
Asian or Asian British	2	4.35
Black, African, Caribbean or Black British	1	2.17
Total	46	100

*Including physician associates, anaesthesia associates and advanced critical care practitioners.

†Redeployed or awaiting redeployment to secondary or tertiary care centres.

‡Including intensive care unit, intensive therapy unit, high-dependency unit.

§BAME is a term used in the UK to refer to individuals who identify as Black, Asian and from Minority Ethnic groups.