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Surgeons calls for specialist surgery hubs to tackle 'colossal' backlog in NHS

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Sign up to FREE email alerts from the Northern Agenda The government is being urged to create specialist surgical hubs in England to tackle a “colossal" backlog of procedures.

The Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) has said the surgical hubs are necessary to allow planned non-urgent procedures to take place throughout the country in the event of a third wave of Covid-19, or other severe pressures caused by flu.

During the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic, elective surgery, such as hip and knee replacements, were cancelled. Around 4.95 million people were waiting to start NHS hospital treatment at the end of March – the highest number since records began in August 2007.

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