Both Wigan and Stockport’s NHS trusts had already taken that decision in the past fortnight as both had come under increasing pressure.
On Wednesday the region’s health lead Sir Richard Leese indicated that that move was likely to happen more broadly across the system in November - as hospitals dealt with a ‘very, very worrying’ level of pressures - and last night the M.E.N.
revealed Manchester Foundation Trust was also pausing non-urgent operations. It has now emerged that all hospital trusts had in fact quietly agreed to the move this week.An internal email sent out to stakeholders by one trust, leaked to the M.E.N, revealed they had all collectively agreed to pause routine and non-urgent care from Monday, although not specialist or.