Primary care staff at NHS Ayrshire & Arran have today been told to reduce “appropriate routine work” for three weeks as the health board battles a winter care crisis.
In an announcement this afternoon, the organisation said the move was designed to ensure GP practices are “able to prioritise urgent care.”
Today’s development comes hot on the heels of last week’s announcement that the heath board was to “pause” routine inpatient elective surgery for a period of three weeks- from Monday 9 January.
