Coronavirus: MP Maria Caulfield to work as nurse amid calls for ex-NHS staff to return

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MP Maria Caulfield has said "we desperately need people" to help the NHS in its fight against coronavirus as she announced she was returning to her job as a nurse alongside her political role.

Speaking to the PA news agency on Friday morning, she said: "I have kept my nursing registration since I became an MP in 2015." Ms Caulfield said she was returning to nursing because "the NHS will be getting unprecedented numbers of patients needing care, but also because staff are liable to get sick themselves. "They can only go at 110% pace for so long and will need breaks themselves." Ms Caulfield, who used to work at the Royal Marsden Hospital in Brompton, is the Conservative MP for Lewes in East Sussex.