Covid-19: NHS outlines services to be prioritised to restart in next six weeks

NHS England has set out details of which regular services should be prioritised for resumption over the next six weeks as part of the second phase of the health service’s response to the covid-19 pandemic.

On 17 March NHS hospitals in England were asked to suspend all non-urgent elective surgery to help free up general and acute care capacity in the wake of the pandemic.1 But on Monday 27 April the health and social care secretary, Matt Hancock, said that some services would resume this week as hospital admissions for covid-19 began to fall in most parts of the country.2

In a letter to all NHS …