Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust dealing with patient backlog
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust's Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust has said it is "working hard" to get through a large backlog of patients left behind during the Covid-19 pandemic. With Covid-positive patient numbers continuing to fall, the trust says it has been working to restore vital non-Covid services to the community to reduce the backlog. But it has seen an increase in the number of people coming through their hospital's emergency departments and urgent care centres, and these services are now as busy as before the Covid-19 pandemic, meaning...