Abstract
The wider impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on the NHS
Highlights
Patients suffering from the illness are placing unprecedented demands on acute care, on intensive care units (ICUs)
This has led to an effort to dramatically increase the resources available to National Health Service (NHS) hospitals in treating these patients, involving reorganisation of hospital facilities, redeployment of existing staff and a drive to bring in recently retired and newly graduated staff to fight the pandemic
The immediate impact of the coronavirus on the NHS is a huge increase in the demand for acute care and, in particular, intensive care facilities
Summary
Patients suffering from the illness are placing unprecedented demands on acute care, on intensive care units (ICUs) This has led to an effort to dramatically increase the resources available to NHS hospitals in treating these patients, involving reorganisation of hospital facilities, redeployment of existing staff and a drive to bring in recently retired and newly graduated staff to fight the pandemic. These increases in demand and changes to supply will affect patients with the coronavirus, but will have large knock-on effects on the care provided to the wider population. Though speculative due to lack of real-time data, suggests that disruptions to non-coronavirus care are likely to have most impact on older and less affluent individuals
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