COVID19 Rapid Explore

Adapting our long existing plans for Rapid Explore (A Large Cancer Focused facility and new format for NHS partners with dynamic Teams ) for the COVID19 Emergency .

Note - The table with requests for assistance is from March 2020

07/09/21 BBC NI Article Extracts Northern Ireland health system 'one step from chaos'

"We are now facing winter pressures, Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) for children, the next wave of flu and a wave of Covid. We cannot do all........ "My biggest fear is that we won't be able to keep going with cancer surgery; that we will be overwhelmed with Covid admissions; with routine winter admissions and that we will have to stop routine cancer surgery.

"We do not want to be faced with having to ask or decide who is going to get their operation and who is not; who is going to get an ICU bed and who is not."

Adapting the plans for the Rapid Explore cancer facility

COVID19 Emergency actions - request for assistance in removing red tape and facilitating a plan to build immediate additional capacity. A site les than one mile from our large local hospital. With 'make it happen support' the ground floor sections outlined in red could be transformed into workable facilities such as isolated COVID-19 Wards to help reduce debilitating loads on the local hospital.