UK Industry Prepares For Post-COVID-19 ‘Normal’ As Non-Urgent And Planned Elective Care Get Green Light

Non-urgent care, ceased by the UK government after the initial surge of COVID-19 cases, is to be restored gradually now that the virus has peaked and new cases are falling. The UK ABHI’s Andrew Davies explains what this means for the medtech industry.

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National Health Service chief executive Simon Stevens wrote to the managers of all UK health care provider systems in England in late April, asking them to review their capacity to begin restoring non-COVID-19 services in routine, non-urgent, elective care.

He gave NHS and Foundation trusts, clinical commissioning groups and primary care providers and networks ten days to judge their...

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