Elective surgery to restart in Greater Manchester

Manchester’s mayor Andy Burnham, has said that non-urgent surgery and hospital appointments will restart in the region this week.

He said elective activity would restart “with day cases” in the next few days and “progressively increase” after that, although he did say that services in the region remained under “considerable pressure”.

Mr Burnham went on to say that the pause had been “kept under regular review” and as the region’s hospitals “make further progress on the number of people… who can be discharged, we’ll be able to progressively increase the level of activity and get back to what might resemble a normal level of service.

“I know (the news) will be well received by patients who feel frustrated by the current situation and have been worried.  Patients who have had operations or procedures cancelled should just wait to hear from the NHS, but the good news is that it is starting again.

“There is still considerable pressure on the system, so people will have to bear with our NHS colleagues.”

The pause on elective surgery did not affect urgent care including cardiac surgery, vascular surgery and transplantation, or cancer care.

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