Long-awaited hip and knee replacements, hernias and other overnight elective surgeries will be allowed to recommence at public hospitals from Monday.
Long-awaited hip and knee replacements, hernias and other overnight elective surgeries are recommencing at Sydney’s public hospitals, seven weeks after they were paused to help the state’s health system cope with rising coronavirus cases.
Elective surgery restrictions on private hospitals will be dropped one week later, with those hospitals first moving to an 85 per cent cap, in addition to public operations being done in private facilities.NSW placed restrictions on elective surgery in public and private hospitals on January 10, limiting procedures to only the most urgent operations and those which could be completed as day surgery. Private hospitals were allowed to recommence at 75 per cent of their capacity one month later.
Payal Mukherjee, NSW chair of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, said there would be significant limits on how quickly hospitals could make it through their backlogs. The, the month before restrictions introduced to free up hospital capacity during the Delta wave were eased.
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