The NHS trust which runs five London hospitals stresses services are currently running as normal.
"We are only able to respond to this next challenge because of our dedicated staff who are prepared to do all they can to care for our patients, with many taking on extra shifts."The announcement came after Chris Hopson, chief executive officer of NHS Providers, which represents hospital bosses, told the BBC on Monday that London was seeing a "very significant increase" in staff absences at hospital.
He said staff absences last week had jumped from 1,900 at the beginning, to 4,700 by Thursday - and this has gone up further since. Mr Hopson previously warned that some trusts were having to postpone "non-essential activity" as a result.which is the epicentre of the Omicron outbreak. A spokesman for Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust said potential changes to services were "mainly precautionary" but that staffing was "very tight", with 149 staff off with Covid and 69 self-isolating.
The Trust's mental health service at The Gordon Hospital in central London has been temporarily closed for 20 months, since April 2020.
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