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The head of health and care in Cornwall has warned that the NHS spending whatever is needed to tackle the coronavirus "won't continue" for the recovery period.
Health professionals have asked whether there is going to be additional funding in place to cope with the backlog in treatment and care which will be needed as Cornwall recovers from the coronavirus pandemic.
With health services beginning to be resumed members of the NHS Kernow Clinical Commissiong Group (CCG) governing body said they were concerned about the resources needed to cope with a backlog and the additional numbers which could be in Cornwall if tourism businesses reopen.
GP Francis Old told the body's meeting on Tuesday (June 2): "If we have tourists coming down in July and August, we will have a backlog of patients that we will need to see and then have a load of extra people in the tourists."
www.cornwalllive.com
Health professionals have asked whether there is going to be additional funding in place to cope with the backlog in treatment and care which will be needed as Cornwall recovers from the coronavirus pandemic.
With health services beginning to be resumed members of the NHS Kernow Clinical Commissiong Group (CCG) governing body said they were concerned about the resources needed to cope with a backlog and the additional numbers which could be in Cornwall if tourism businesses reopen.
GP Francis Old told the body's meeting on Tuesday (June 2): "If we have tourists coming down in July and August, we will have a backlog of patients that we will need to see and then have a load of extra people in the tourists."
Funds for Cornwall NHS to fight pandemic 'won't continue'
'If we have tourists coming down in July and August, we will have a backlog of patients that we will need to see and then have a load of extra people in the tourists'
www.cornwalllive.com
