Coronavirus: NHS boss announces plans to resume service, but warns of “challenge” first

In Scotland, health managers are ready to resume cancer services and other important treatments. But for the NHS, there may be “more difficult” days ahead.

A new framework called “Remobilization, Recovery, Redesign” has been unveiled to guide the possibility of postponed life-saving treatment in the early days of the pandemic and to prevent excessive medical services.

It prioritizes the revival of cancer services, especially referrals and deferred treatments, expanded treatment for non-cancer emergency inpatients and outpatients, mental health support, some GP functions, blood monitoring, and other Prioritize service.

The move was followed by a surge in non-Covid-19-related deaths in Scotland during a pandemic, and warnings about the effects of the virus on the NHS may have prevented sick people from seeking medical assistance. It caused a concern that it might not exist.

Secretary of Health Jean Freeman said in the framework document that over the next 100 days, the NHS had three core tasks including “providing as many regular services as possible and as safely”.

The other two were to confirm their ability to deal with coronaviruses and to prepare health care services for the winter, including restocking.

Freeman said: “We take an evidence-based, cautious and gradual approach to restarting services to keep the virus under control.

“While NHS Scotland remains an urgent scaffold, the framework shows an approach to the next phase as we continue to respond to this pandemic.”

This framework outlined the scale of the NHS’s upcoming tasks to handle cases of coronaviruses and test operations as soon as the NHS resumes normal service.

“ Most definitely a move to the next phase of this first response, especially in the context of lifting Covid’s restrictions, and the risk of increased non-Covid potential harm and our response. Other important and interdependent locations and operations, such as testing and protection. “

Also, the transition is “regional” and requires “flexibility to reduce service provision as needed if there is evidence of rising infection rates in some parts of the country. The framework says.

The document, which outlines plans for a local “covid community hub,” also revealed that many changes introduced in the last few weeks are likely to be permanent.

One of the stated principles was a pledge to provide “services close to people’s homes” and “minimize unnecessary travel.”

Freeman was asked on Sunday’s daily coronavirus briefing how it works in northern Scotland. Here in recent years, Moray patients have to travel to Aberdeen and Caithness patients are required to travel long distances to book. At the Righmore Hospital in Inverness.

The Secretary of Health has signaled that rural patients can expect more services to be delivered digitally.

“If we stop and think about it, most, if not most, of our country is to change the extent of remote areas and rural areas,” she said.

“And part of what we’re trying to do builds on some good practices developed in primary and community care in response to pandemics to keep people in service. Is to do.

“And in addition to recognizing that in some cases clinicians really need to look at an individual to see if we can extend it further, we have a personal relationship with the patient. Sometimes it’s not communicated through the screen, it’s just as important, so it’s balance. “

The briefing also confirmed that an additional 18 people were diagnosed with the virus in Scotland from Saturday to Sunday, a total of 27 were receiving intensive care, a decrease of 6 from Saturday, and an additional 9 deaths.

Richard Leonard, leader of the Scottish Labor Party, said: “It is essential that the NHS service be restarted in a safe way for patients who still need treatment.

“The NHS was able to redesign its entire organization in a matter of weeks to respond to the threat posed by Covid-19.

“I am concerned that this framework will provide a lack of details and commitment to dates to restart services, and a vague approach to moving forward.”