Delivering core NHS and care services during the pandemic and beyond

Delivering core NHS and care services during the pandemic and beyond The catalogues the impact and unprecedented challenge caused by Covid-19 to the provision of essential services.

The Health and Social Care Committee is calling for urgent action to assess and tackle a backlog of appointments and an unknown patient demand for all health services, specifically across cancer treatments, mental health services, dentistry services, GP services and elective surgery in a new report. MPs say a compelling case has been made for the nationwide routine testing of all NHS staff and they are yet to understand why it cannot be introduced. 

See also:

• Vital that government supports NHS and social care to keep normal services running as winter approaches The Health Foundation
• Vital lessons need to be learnt: The King’s Fund response to the Health and Social Care Committee report on core NHS services during the Covid-19 pandemic The King's Fund
• Patients left 'in limbo' by NHS virus response BBC News
• MPs demand urgent action on NHS backlog and routine COVID-19 tests for staff GPonline