Mass cancellations of NHS operations inevitable this winter, say doctors (England)

[Northerner]

Mass cancellations of routine operations in England are inevitable this autumn and winter despite an NHS edict that hospitals must not again disrupt normal care, doctors’ leaders have said.

Organisations representing frontline doctors, including the British Medical Association (BMA), also criticised NHS England for ordering hospitals to provide “near normal” levels of non-Covid care in the second wave of the pandemic, and demanded that fines for failing to meet targets be scrapped.

An influx of Covid-19 patients has led to planned operations being cancelled or postponed in at least seven hospital trusts. On Friday three hospital trusts in South Yorkshire postponed non-urgent surgery, a day after Nottingham University hospitals did the same.

Sources said the hospitals in Rotherham, Doncaster and Barnsley were cancelling “small numbers” of elective operations and outpatient appointments involving non-urgent conditions.

Mass cancellations of NHS operations inevitable this winter, say doctors

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[mikeydt1]

i all ready mentioned in quite a few posts that OP here had been shut since March and all they are offering is telephone appointments situation is becoming very poor for those who don't have covid.

someone some where needs to get a grip as the whole idea of hospitals is to treat everyone not been elective to just treating those with covid!

did anyone see that they were also thinking of stopping cancer care, really! also they booted out over 5000 patients to make way for people with the virus, doesn't stand looking at.