NHS patients could be moved around the country under plan to reduce waiting ...
NHS patients stuck with long waits for routine treatment face being moved to spare beds in hospitals across country while follow-up appointments will be scrapped under radical plan to reduce post-Covid backlog of 5.8m people Sajid Javid ordered NHS health chiefs to come up with proposals to ease backlog A review will recommend follow-up appointments after certain treatments cut Instead patients will be told to only contact doctors if they experience any issues
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Follow-up appointments are to be scrapped and patients moved round the country under new plans to tackle the enormous NHS waiting list backlog, it was reported last night.
The Health Secretary Sajid Javid is understood to have ordered NHS health chiefs to come up with proposals to ease the backlog.
A review led by Sir Jim Mackey, the head of Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, will recommend that follow-up appointments after certain treatments be cut.
Instead patients will be told to only contact doctors if they experience any issues - a system known as 'patient-initiated follow-up', according
