Overcoming COVID-19 challenges in Ambulatory Surgery: Reflections of a Junior Doctor

ABSTRACT

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the UK in many ways;with the NHS being put under unprecedented pressure. It led to the cessation of elective surgery for months;causing a back log of deteriorating patients. With the introduction of COVID vaccines and a call for return to normality, new ways of delivering elective surgery to waiting patients, presents an opportunity to find sustainable ways to ensure continuity of treatment in an unstable health economy. The challenges of Covid to ambulatory surgery are outlined and strategies to overcome these challenges discussed.