6th October 2020
The Belfast Trust Resilience Plan brings together what we will need to do to respond to additional demand from the pressures of Winter 2020/2021 alongside any subsequent waves of COVID-19. Winter pressures have an acute impact on our unscheduled care services and are also keenly felt across our whole hospital system and our community services.
In addition, a further surge of COVID-19 has the potential to have a wide-reaching impact on our ability to deliver many of our services.
Health Minister Robin Swann announced the new COVID-19 Surge Planning Strategic Framework for Northern Ireland in a statement to the Assembly.
Read the full Department of Health announcement here.