Welsh Govt. cancelling elective cancer surgery

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The pandemic has already had an enormous impact upon cancer services. Today, in a statement from the Minister for Health and Social Services, Welsh Government have given the green light to Health Boards to cancel elective cancer surgery to redeploy surgeons and other staff onto wards to deal with the pandemic.
https://gov.wales/written-statement-nhs-pressures

  • That is absolutely disgusting.  They openly admit there is a risk of worsening prognosis to cancer patients. I feel for the patients in Wales who this will affect.

  • This is something  that has happened already in Scotland but after much petitioning they are getting back to re-establishing Cancer services. Its shocking that these specialists are being re-deployed with all the skills that Cancer patients need how does that translate to them dealing with the pandemic when  their job is completely different and very specialist.    xxx