Three main NHS acute hospitals deferring non-urgent surgeries after reaching ‘critical point’
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Hospitals in Liverpool are scaling back non-urgent operations to help them cope with Covid-19 patients despite NHS bosses insisting that normal care continues during the second wave.
NHS trusts elsewhere in north-west England, as well as in the north-east and Midlands, are also preparing to cancel routine surgery such as joint replacements and hernia repairs amid a rapid rise in seriously ill coronavirus patients.
