A number of scheduled cancer surgeries have been cancelled in Belfast to free up staff to deal with increasing Covid inpatients.
The Belfast Health and Social Care Trust apologised for the distress the move would cause for the affected patients and their families.
Last week the trust announced that around 100 non-urgent planned procedures were being rescheduled as part of efforts to re-orientate services to deal with the latest surge in coronavirus admissions.
In a statement this evening, the trust confirmed that a number of cancer surgeries had now been cancelled. "Regrettably, the Belfast Trust has made the difficult decision to cancel some cancer-related procedures which we are currently working to reschedule as soon as possible," it