Queen Mary University of London: Critical Care and Perioperative Medicine Research Group
Doi
Abstract
The healthcare response to the COVID-19 pandemic has required rapid changes to the provision of secondary care services, requiring re-deployment of staff and equipment from other departments. Surgical services represent a large portion of healthcare activity, accounting for 8-million hospital admissions to the United Kingdom (UK) National Health Service (NHS) every year. On 11th April 2020 National Health Service (NHS) issued guidance that postponed the majority of all non-urgent surgery. However, the full extent of the number of cases postponed and the volume of surgical activity that continued is unknown