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Coronavirus: Meet the ex-NHS staff who are returning to work NewsColony Image copyright Jane Williams Image caption Dr Jane Williams says “it’s very hard to stop being a doctor” Thousands of retired doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers have offered to return to the NHS during the coronavirus crisis. Why are they going back and how can they make a difference? For Dr Jane Williams, a retired GP , evidence of the mounting pressure on the NHS came worryingly close to home. She was contacted by a friend who had become breathless and was worried they had coronavirus. She urged the friend to call the NHS 111 service. Despite quickly getting through to an expert, they didn’t get a call back for 24 hours. “You realise what severe pressures the 111 service must be under,” Dr Williams says. “It’s very hard to stop being a doctor. I feel the sooner that I can be deployed to help, the better really.” In the next few days, she hopes to start working from home doing telephone triage...