King’s College hospital postpones operations amid shortage of ICU beds owing to coronavirus surge

One of the NHS’s biggest hospitals has had to cancel urgent cancer surgery this week because so many of its intensive care beds are occupied by Covid-19 patients.

King’s College hospital in south London called off all “priority two” cancer operations that it was due to perform on Monday and Tuesday. They are procedures that cancer specialists have judged to be urgent and need to be done within 28 days of the decision to undertake them.

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