London, UK (CU)_ Due to the ongoing pressure, a hospital trust has temporarily halted all planned and urgent operations. According to the Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust, the tough decision was made due to concerns about the growing number of Covid-19 patients in the state. However, staff will be able to care for patients who require emergency admittance. Health officials in Devon have previously expressed similar concerns, prompting the South Western Ambulance Trust to declare a major incident.
In Cornwall, Dr Allister Grant, the medical director of the trust, spoke about the hospital’s emergency decision. He said, “With Covid-related admissions remaining high and health and care services in Cornwall under continued pressure, we’ve taken the difficult decision to temporarily suspend planned routine and urgent surgery at our main hospitals, so our clinical teams can care for people needing emergency admission”. He added, “There has been no let-up in demand and [we] currently have more than 40 people in the hospital who are Covid positive and nearly 50 more who are contacts and need to be isolated.”
According to the trust, most of the patients were not aware that…
