On 25th March 2020, in response to NHS England and NHS Kernow advice, all routine procedures were suspended along with the Royal Cornwall Hospital sub-contracted work and any self paying patients.
In response to the COVID19 pandemic, Probus Surgical Centre has offered its facilities and staff to NHS Kernow to assist in the provision of urgent patient care in Cornwall which can be relocated to a local anaesthetic facility. During these extraordinary times, Probus Surgical Centre’s main priority is ensuring the health and safety of our staff and patients and we have developed policies and protocols to ensure that social distancing is key to all of our activity and patient flow.
Although Probus Surgical Centre already has sub-contracting arrangements in place with the Royal Cornwall Hospital, through collaborative working with NHS Kernow, the Royal Cornwall Hospital Trust have requested the support of Probus Surgical Centre facilities and staffing in the temporary relocation of some directly commissioned urgent services, both outpatients and electives.
Ophthalmology was the first RCHT directly commissioned urgent service to be commenced at Probus Surgical Centre on 4th May 2020 and oral /maxillofacial surgery commenced their service for urgent patients at Probus Surgical Centre on 15th July 2020.
On 13th July 2020, in response to NHS England and NHS Kernow advice, Probus Surgical Centre, were able to reopen their hand, hernia and cataract services, on the understanding that all urgent patients in the system were to be booked before seeing any routine patients.
2021 – Cornwall Medical Group and Probus Surgical Centre continue to operate within current NHS England Guidelines.
