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‘Restarting Is Harder Than Stopping’: UK Elective Care Faces Challenges Beyond COVID-19

 
• By Ashley Yeo

Elective surgery is only “elective” in terms of timing, and is not optional. So says British Orthopaedic Association VP-elect John Skinner in the context of how post-COVID-19 planned care will move forward in the UK.

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When the UK government declared a COVID-19 national lockdown on 23 March in an attempt to halt the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak, all elective surgery and non-urgent elective outpatient activity for orthopedic and other care was suspended.

This added to the one issue that was already weighing heaviest on the National Health Service: how to process and deliver elective care for a waiting list that was already at record levels before coronavirus arrived

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