NHS hospitals in England have been told to delay routine out-patient appointments during the month of January, to allow priority to be given to emergency care and time-critical operations such as cancer treatment. Professor Keith Willett of NHS England denies that this represents a crisis, describing it as a "planned response to a winter that we knew was going to be difficult." Report by Jonesia. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
