BREAKING: All non-urgent operations cancelled for three months
All routine operations in the UK will be cancelled amid theHospitals have been asked to send home as many patients as possible to free up 30,000 out of 100,000 general and acute beds in England for those suffering with Covid-19.
Health chiefs have asked staff to achieve this by cancelling elective operations, speed up discharges and use the private sector where possible. It is understood regulators are ‘writing to clinicians who have relinquished their licence to practice within the past three years to see whether they would be willing to return to help in some capacity,’ according to the HSJ.to see the NHS through the crisis, which is thought to reach its peak within the next few weeks.
Mr Hancock said the thing the NHS ’needs more than anything else’ is ventilators – which he admitted are ‘complicated’ to create – and the government has been buying as many as possible, while producing more too. However, he said he could not make guarantees that everyone who requires a ventilator will get one, saying: ‘We don’t make guarantees in healthcare.’
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