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NewsColony NHS to release plan next week to ‘redeploy coronavirus capacity’ NHS hospitals could restart routine operations as soon as next week as the health service prepares plans to get back on its feet as the coronavirus crisis blows over.   Private hospitals have laid empty in the past week and up to 40,000 NHS beds are thought to be empty.  Routine operations had been cancelled and patients sent home to open up capacity for an expected surge in COVID-19 patients after stories emerged of hospitals being overwhelmed by the pandemic in China and Italy . But the NHS has coped with the strain and hospitals are now keen to get back to business as statistics have shown patients in need are avoiding emergency departments and even going against paramedics’ advice to go into hospital. One healthcare boss has stressed that ‘the NHS is open’ and said he didn’t think it was clear enough that people could still use health services as normal. Others have said they want to get op...