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John Rogers and Nathan Lewis discuss what healthcare workers might learn from sport and exercise medicine about sleep, stress, exercise and nutrition. Recorded during the first COVID-19 wave, the conversation draws on athlete research while acknowledging the limits of applying it to pandemic staff health.

Natalie May reflects on emotions in emergency medicine, drawing on her experience of postnatal anxiety and depression. She explores why clinicians bottle up feelings and introduces a self-validation approach: acknowledging, allowing and understanding emotions without judging ourselves for having them.

How can a hospital improve patient flow when beds, staff and resources are stretched? This appraisal examines Yeovil's whole-hospital design science project, including shared goals, multidisciplinary routines and reported improvements in flow, while considering how the approach might translate to other hospitals.

The February 2020 roundup became a conversation about preparing for COVID-19 as the first cases arrived. Simon Carley and Iain Beardsell compare their hopes and worries, discussing difficult decisions, support for redeployed colleagues and the need to keep caring for patients with other illnesses.

How can teams rehearse a new clinical pathway without a mannequin or simulated casualty? This February 2020 introduction to Practical Exercises Without Casualties uses a suspected coronavirus scenario to explore in-situ planning, communication and decision-making, with prompts that can be adapted to other situations.

Ashley Liebig's January 2020 introduction to the novel coronavirus outbreak, written as cases began appearing beyond China. The article records the early questions facing clinicians and the information available at that point, offering a historical snapshot rather than an up-to-date account of COVID-19.