Exclusive: NHS England criticised for ordering ‘near-normal’ non-Covid care during pandemic
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Mass cancellations of routine operations in England are inevitable this autumn and winter despite an NHS edict that hospitals must not again disrupt normal care, doctors’ leaders have said.
Organisations representing frontline doctors, including the British Medical Association (BMA), also criticised NHS England for ordering hospitals to provide “near-normal” levels of non-Covid care in the second wave of the pandemic and demanded that fines for failing to meet targets are scrapped.
