The COVID-19 pandemic presents an unprecedented challenge to our National Health Service (NHS) (1). As the need to appropriately direct all efforts towards providing emergency supportive care to those suffering, there will be a knee-jerk tendency to cancel all outpatient activity by NHS trusts. Whilst this appears to be a pragmatic approach to reducing risk of transmission, there will be an unmet cost to those patients who are high-risk and are already on the cancer referral pathway.
BJU international. 2020 Mar 30 [Epub ahead of print]
M J Connor, M Winkler, S Miah
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, Charing Cross Hospital, London, W6 8RF, UK., Department of Urology, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK.