TY - JOUR T1 - Compliance with UK national guidance for elective surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic JF - Archives of Disease in Childhood JO - Arch Dis Child DO - 10.1136/archdischild-2020-321445 SP - archdischild-2020-321445 AU - Christina Major AU - Rachel Harwood AU - Sanjay Valabh Patel AU - Nigel J Hall Y1 - 2021/02/18 UR - http://adc.bmj.com/content/early/2021/02/17/archdischild-2020-321445.abstract N2 - Elective paediatric surgery essentially stopped during the initial COVID-19 lockdown,resulting in significant treatment delays. As of December 2020, 210 000 children were awaiting elective surgery, with 66 000 waiting >6 months.1 To facilitate the safe and efficient recovery of children’s elective surgery, national guidance was developed.2 This child-focussed guidance accounts for lower COVID-19 prevalence in children and inability to isolate children from household contacts, and considers the impact of processes on children and families. This guidance was published in July 2020, endorsed by Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, Royal College of Surgeons of England, adopted by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence and revised September 2020 and January 2021, considering rising COVID-19 prevalence and new virus variants.National adoption of the guidance was audited with a survey distributed to anaesthetists and surgeons in all 26 UK specialist paediatric surgery centres during October … ER -