An internal memo to staff outlines plans to pause elective surgery again due to increasing pressure on the major trauma hospital, strain fuelled by the spread of the Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants MeljCunningham
Urgent category one and emergency surgery will still go ahead.
“As expected, COVID transmissions continue to rise,” Way wrote to staff at the inner-south hospital. “We are now looking directly in the face of a third Omicron wave.” “I know you are exhausted and ‘over’ being asked for more. I know this pandemic has asked too much. I know that words of thank you, don’t change the reality of your day. But I am grateful and will put in as many useful supports for you as we can.”described plans to cancel leave for hospital staff, deploy private healthcare workers to the public system and cancel elective surgeries if hospitalisations continue to rise.
Phase three of the plan includes cancellation leave for hospital staff and ramping up telehealth services to limit patients coming in and out of all public and private acute-care hospitals.
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