PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Lamin A King
AU  - Sandeep S Hothi
TI  - Remodelling elective hospital services in the COVID-19 era – designing the new normal
AID  - 10.7861/fhj.2020-0079
DP  - 2020 Oct 01
TA  - Future Healthcare Journal
PG  - e60--e63
VI  - 7
IP  - 3
4099  - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/7/3/e60.short
4100  - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/7/3/e60.full
SO  - Future Healthc J2020 Oct 01; 7
AB  - The provision of elective clinical services has decreased during the initial phase of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic to enable hospitals to focus on acute illness. Any end to the pandemic through widespread vaccination, effective treatment or development of herd immunity may be years away. Until then, hospitals will need to resume treating other diseases while also attempting to eradicate transmission of COVID-19 within the healthcare setting. In this article we suggest six major themes which could affect the design and delivery of elective clinical services: hospital avoidance, separation of high- and low-risk groups, screening, maintenance of adequate infection control, and new ways of working.