Mike McKirdy, president of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, was speaking to the inquiry on Wednesday.
The NHS can recover from the Covid-19 pandemic if it has enough effort and resourcing put into it, a leading clinician has told an inquiry.
He added: “I fear there is now, after the pandemic, a loss of faith in the ability of the NHS to deliver services.” However, he encouraged people to remain optimistic about the ability of NHS to overcome the challenges it faces post-pandemic and said: “I do think it is possible for us to restore that model.“But the way of restoring the NHS to the position it was in prior to the pandemic is to increase the capacity of our service to deliver for the patients who are waiting.
“It may be that simply this is a system that doesn’t yet have the capacity to deliver that catch-up.”During his evidence to the inquiry, the cancer specialist also described having to rapidly adapt long-standing medical processes and procedures in the early stage of the virus, including what treatments could be given, and how staff could interact with patients.
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