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The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has created an unprecedent crisis in United Kingdom and worldwide healthcare. Over the coming months, it is possible that up to 20% of the UK workforce could be selfisolating at any one point in time. 1 Rates of self-isolation may be considerably higher in UK healthcare workers due to transmissions in the healthcare setting. Emerging evidence from countries hard-hit by the pandemic like China, Italy and Spain has shown that some specialties will have particularly high infection rates due to their proximity of care with COVID-19 positive patients. The General Medical Council (GMC) and Chief Medical Officers of the four UK nations signed a joint statement saying that physicians may work across specialties so long as they are following GMC guidance on being a 'good doctor'. 2 Currently, there is no evidence of which medical specialties should be prioritised for working in specialties crucial for the care of COVID-19 patients. Therefore, the aim was to determine which doctors from 'filling specialties' could be prioritised to work in 'COVID-19 crucial specialties', such as intensive care medicine, acute internal medicine, infectious diseases, anaesthetics and emergency medicine.

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