MANCHESTER HERNIA

As a group of hernia specialists, we would like to advise on some key points in regard to hernia surgery especially due to the unprecedented times we are experiencing at present, the health of the nation is of paramount importance. As health professionals we urge that you continue to update yourselves on the advice of both the department of health and your local hospital. Our roles as clinicians have to now be flexible to deliver urgent and much needed care in the first instance. We understand that all non-urgent elective activity has been postponed and this has had a negative impact on hernia surgery especially in terms of the increased time patients will now wait for their operation. MancheserHernia will seek to address this with a degree of urgency when the situation has changed in terms of hospital policy, admissiona and the return of elective surgery.