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Correspondence
COVID-19 pandemic: unexpected problems in pathological reporting
  1. W Glenn McCluggage
  1. Royal Group of Hospitals and Dental Hospital Health and Social Services Trust, Belfast, BT12 6BA, UK
  1. Correspondence to Professor W Glenn McCluggage, Royal Group of Hospitals and Dental Hospital Health and Social Services Trust, Belfast BT12 6BA, UK; glenn.mccluggage{at}belfasttrust.hscni.net

https://doi.org/10.1136/jclinpath-2021-207697

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    The COVID-19 pandemic saw a dramatic reduction in patient referrals for investigation and management of cancers and other conditions in the UK and elsewhere. One of the most immediate effects was a ‘downturn’ in the number of specimens submitted to pathology laboratories. Following this, many clinical teams, in conjunction with their managerial colleagues, put in place plans to see and manage patients and to undertake surgical procedures in various hospitals where they would not normally do this, including independent non-National Health Service (NHS) institutions. In most, but not all, cases this involved the clinicians travelling to undertake the work in these institutions. While this practice undoubtedly alleviated some of the pressures and allowed other NHS institutions to be devoted to dealing with the pandemic, there have been unexpected …

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    • Handling editor Runjan Chetty.

    • Contributors The sole author is responsible for the paper.

    • Funding The author has not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.