Clap for Our Carers founder says TONIGHT should be the last clap for the NHS after ten weeks

• Annemarie Plas wants to focus on concrete ways to improve lives of key workers 
• But she hopes people will still socialise at 8pm on their doorsteps on Thursdays 
• She told Good Morning Britain the movement had been 'overwhelming' 

The Clap for our Carers founder has said that tonight should be the last clap for the NHS after ten weeks. 

Annemarie Plas today told Good Morning Britain that it's time to move on but praised people who'd taken part. 

Although she hopes neighbours will still come out onto their doorsteps to socialise at 8pm on Thursday, the mother believes it's now time to concentrate on concrete steps to improve conditions for key workers.  

'It's been quite overwhelming to see in ways how it has been brought up in this country in the nation,' she said, adding that she won't be clapping in coming weeks.

Dr Martin Porter (bottom-left) agreed it's time to stop the clap but former glamour model Linda Lusardi (bottom-right) disagreed 

NHS staff applaud during the 'Clap For Our Carers' campaign in support of the National Health Service (NHS) outside the Chelsea and Westminster hospital in London 

People are pictured clapping outside Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in central London

'For everyone who wants to continue they should,' she added. 'It still has a positive impact but for me its good to see how that positive energy can be taken to next level and also to embrace the community still at 8pm and how to give any form or shape to that.' 

Dr Martin Porter agreed with her comments, saying that there was a risk the weekly clap would lose its importance.

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Annemarie Plas (pictuerd on today's Good Morning Britian) says that it's time to stop the clap

'With all of these things if you carry them on for too long fatigue sets in,' he said, but added: 'It's been a beautiful thing.'  

Former glamour model Linda Lusardi - who herself battled coronaviurs - disagreed and worries that people will forget about the dangers of corona virus.

'If we lose that completely people are just going to think this virus has gone away,  which it hasn't,' she said. 'We're not out of the woods yet.' 

It comes as The NHS Test and Trace system for England is expected to start today for people who have Covid-associated symptoms.

It was unveiled yesterday by Health Secretary Matt Hancock , who said it was the 'civic duty' of the public to adhere to the new rules. 

However, it is being launched without its NHS contact tracing app centrepiece, prompting concerns that without the new technology the government could struggle to tackle the spread of the disease.