Sentence examples for operations postponed from inspiring English sources
Group Health's facilities are to remain open, staffed with replacement workers, but some patients are being transferred and some operations postponed because of the strike.
When that happens, there are fewer beds for patients who need to be admitted, so hospitals get clogged up, planned operations postponed and waiting times for treatment become longer.
In west Wales, Hywel Dda Health Board postponed 905 appointments and 92 operations postponed.
In the Cwm Taf area (Merthyr, Pontypridd) 1,100 appointments and 80 operations postponed.
Off-duty doctors and nurses were asked to come to work; routine operations were postponed.
As they prepare for possibly the most serious strike in NHS history, they know junior doctors are rightly popular, admired for their dedication and enjoying strong public support – although this could swiftly dissipate as thousands of operations are postponed.
"The NHS constitution is clear that patients whose elective operations are postponed must then be treated within 28 days, and also have the option of choosing to have their treatment faster at other convenient hospitals".
Ambulances queued and hundreds of planned operations were postponed.
In the ABM Health Board area covering Swansea and Bridgend, 3,000 outpatient appointments and 75 operations were postponed.
The University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust UHMBTT) said it will be writing to patients whose operations were postponed.
The reports said scheduled operations were postponed and hospital waiting lists allowed to grow as the Welsh NHS struggled to cut costs.
