Concern over cancellation of cancer operations in East Lancashire hospitals due to Covid A leading surgeon has raised concerns that cancer operations could be cancelled if the NHS becomes overwhelmed with Covid-19 patients. The health service has done its best to maintain cancer operations and other emergency services throughout the pandemic, but now a top surgeon has raised concerns over the possibility of cancer operations being cancelled or postponed. Professor Neil Mortensen, president of the Royal College of Surgeons, said that many hopsitals had already stopped lower priority surgeries such as hip and knee replacements. In East Lancashire between March and September last year, a total of 258 operations were cancelled across both Royal Blackburn and Burnley General Hospitals, with the figures expected to be much higher when October to December s cancellations are taken into consideration.
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PIP is designed to provide financial support to individuals who are reckoning with ill-health or a disability. The payments are issued once every four weeks to those who are eligible, and split into two tiers - daily living and mobility payments, with the amount a person receives dependent on how their condition affect them. Those who are new to receiving PIP will often have to wait for a period of time to have their claim processed before they can receive the sum to which they are entitled.
The total number of people in England waiting for routine operations at the end of October reached 4.4million, almost on par with the record-high of 4.45million last year.