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INFORMATION RECEIVED FROM THE BCUHB IN REGARDS TO ROUTINE OUTPATIENTS AND HOSPITAL TREATMENT IN NORTH WALES 22 DECEMBER 2021

Planned care paused across North Wales hospitals

BCUHB staff are pulling out all the stops to administer booster jabs to all eligible adults in the next 10 days, ahead of an anticipated peak in Omicron cases in January. Getting booster jabs into the arms of all eligible adults over the next 10 days is critical if we are to protect NHS services in January.  This represents a huge challenge – particularly as we are forecasting that a significant number of staff may be absent from work due to COVID-19 infection or self-isolation over the coming weeks.

To ensure that we can deploy our staff as effectively as possible, we have reluctantly taken the very difficult decision to postpone non-urgent operations, procedures and outpatient appointments with immediate effect from Monday, 20 December 2021. We have also asked that all other non-essential services are paused to allow staff to be released to support the vaccination campaign. All patients whose procedures will be postponed will be contacted directly and are asked not to contact the hospitals. 

ALL EMERGENCY SURGERY, URGENT CANCER TREATMENT AND MATERNITY SERVICES WILL CONTINUE ACROSS OUR THREE MAIN HOSPITALS.