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The COVID-19 pandemic had a severe impact on healthcare organisations ability to deliver elective care, resulting in delays for patients and increasing backlogs.

In response to long waiting lists, governments are announcing significant investment to tackle backlogs and are placing surgical hubs at the centre of transforming delivery of elective services. ^{1, 2, 3, 4}

Olympus partner with both acute and private healthcare providers to enable growth of surgical capacity. We support through offering a complete range of minimally invasive endoscopic equipment from state-of-the art imaging equipment and innovative therapeutic devices, through to fully integrated operating rooms and digital solutions, across multiple surgical specialities and procedures:

^{1. Royal College of Surgeons of England. https://www.rcseng.ac.uk/news-and-events/media-centre/press-releases/rtt-waiting-times-march-2023/}

^{2. Gov.UK. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/over-50-new-surgical-hubs-set-to-open-across-england-to-help-bust-the-covid-backlogs}

^{3. UK Parliament. https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2023-03-23/172435}

^{4. NHS England. https://www.england.nhs.uk/2022/02/nhs-publishes-electives-recovery-plan-to-boost-capacity-and-give-power-to-patients/}

^{5. GIRFT. https://gettingitrightfirsttime.co.uk/hvlc/surgical-hubs}