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Jul 2021
Call to cancel more procedures in effort to reduce hospital pressures in Scotland
A senior public health official has said health boards should consider cancelling non-urgent procedures to reduce pressure on hospitals in Scotland.
NHS Grampian’s head of health intelligence Jilllian Evans, said it would “make sense” to defer some operations.
Ms Evans said “It would make sense for us to try to mitigate as many risks of safety of the health of our population and our staff as possible by making some difficult decisions about elective care.
“That is where I think it would make more sense to start thinking about reducing pressure there coupled with any changes and evidence that emerge about the safety of people when they are double jabbed.”
According to Professor Jackie Taylor, president of Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons in Glasgow, another possible solution would be to assess whether double vaccinated health and social care staff need to self isolate if they had been in contact with the virus.
Professor Taylor, however, added that there would need to be “very firm evidence” that changes to the quarantine policy would be beneficial, adding “I think it’s not unreasonable to consider looking at a more proportionate policy for double vaccinated people.
“We’re going to have to do this when we start exploring what happens after level zero anyway, but I think it is extremely important that we look at everything else we can do to reduce pressure on the system.”
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