Despite the Bank Holiday for the Queen's funeral, many NHS services will continue to operate to minimise the disruption to patients across the North East.
"Most hospital appointments", Covid-19 and flu vaccine appointments are set to go ahead - though the Bank Holiday will require some appointments to be re-arranged. All of the North East's hospitals are working to ensure "as many services as possible" continue.
Some GPs surgeries are set to close, but NHS England has told local health service bosses to ensure out-of-hours services are in place - Dr Ursula Montgomery, NHS England's director of primary care, wrote: " [Integrated Care Boards] will need to urgently work to ensure sufficient out-of-hours (integrated urgent care) services capacity is in place during what would have been core hours to meet patient’s urgent primary medical care needs."
