Trusts may also have to stop discharging patients, postpone urgent diagnostic tests and temporarily withdraw services to people undergoing a mental health crisis.
Executives have been warned that the strikes by nurses in their pay dispute with the government could mean that a range of important, and in some cases time-critical, services to seriously ill patients may have to be scaled back or suspended altogether.
NHS England bosses raised that possibility in a letter sent yesterday to hospitals and other care providers before crunch talks with the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) this week.
At that meeting, they will try to agree what areas of care will be hit on 15 and 20 December, and which will continue as normal because they are covered by derogations - agreed exemptions to the action.
The letter sets out a list of 12 areas of care and some non-clinical activity in hospitals, such as food supply, which could be affected if agreement is not reached with the nurses' union.
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