Two football club doctors are rejoining the NHS frontline to help fight coronavirus. With all sport suspended Dr Wesley Tensell, club doctor at League One Rochdale, and Dr Jim Weems, crowd doctor at local rivals Oldham Athletic, have both volunteered to work at a new COVID-19 unit being set up at Leigh Infirmary.
The friends will be juggling their day jobs as GPs in Leigh to work one day a week at the unit, which will treat recovering COVID-10 patients before they are discharged.
Dr Tensel, a Cambridge-educated, 35-year-old dad-of-two, said he volunteered because he 'wanted to do my bit for the community'.
He told the Manchester Evening News : "You see people clapping every Thursday for the NHS staff, but as a GP I'm not necessarily on