NHS 'to start cancelling operations next week' if Covid admissions surge

Operations are likely to be cancelled in the coming weeks if there are significant spikes in Covid-19 hospitalisations, an NHS chief has warned.

Chris Hopson, the head of NHS Providers, has said there is ‘significant uncertainty’ ahead, with evidence that infections may already have peaked in: ‘If the Covid-19 caseload does rise, and it is accompanied by significant staff absences, then something will have to give and lower priority elective surgery would be the conventional way forward.’

‘The NHS is now under different, arguably more, pressure compared to last January’, Mr Hopson argued in a lengthy Twitter thread. ‘The NHS – community, mental health, ambulances and hospitals alike – and social care are beyond full stretch.Modelling shown to ministers suggests that hospital admissions are now doubling every 16 days, and could peak in the middle of January, according to the Telegraph.

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