Reflections on a health systems response to delivery of surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic: NSW experience

Affiliations

• ¹ Bureau of Health Information, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
• ² Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, NSW State Committee, Australia.
• ³ Department of Surgery, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
• ⁴ Agency for Clinical Innovation, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
• ⁵ Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity, University of NSW, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
• ⁶ System Performance and Patient Experience Division, Ministry of Health, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
• ⁷ Department of Hepato-biliary and Pancreatic Surgery, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
• ⁸ Department of Surgery, Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District, Penrith, New South Wales, Australia.
• ⁹ School of Medicine, Western Sydney University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
• ¹⁰ Program Director of Surgery, South West Sydney Local Health District, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.