A number of improvement actions to enable the prioritisation of resources to areas where the capacity gap has the greatest impact are already underway, including:A bottom-up review of operating capacity within surgical teams;Increase resilience of the planned care service through protection of planned care beds to ensure that operations are not cancelled as a result of bed capacity; andIntroduction of new enhanced roles across the wider multi-disciplinary teams to increase capacity and improve sustainability, such as surgical care practitioners, anaesthesia associates and theatre assistant...