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The aim of this study was to examine how COVID-19 challenged the neurosurgical delivery of care in a busy tertiary unit serving a socio-economically diverse population.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>A prospective single-centre cohort study including all patients referred to the acute neurosurgical service or the subspecialty multidisciplinary teams (MDT) as well as all emergency and elective admissions during COVID-19 (18th March 2020\u201315th May 2020) compared to pre-COVID-19 (18th of January 2020\u201317th March 2020). Data on demographics, diagnosis, operation, and treatment recommendation\/outcome were collected and analysed.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      Overall, there was a reduction in neurosurgical emergency referrals by 33.6% and operations by 55.6% during the course of COVID-19. There was a significant increase in the proportion of emergency operations performed during COVID-19 (75.2% of total,\n                      <jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\n                      =155) when compared to pre-COVID-19 (\n                      <jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\n                      = 198, 43.7% of total,\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      &lt; 0.00001). In contrast to other published series, the 30-day perioperative mortality remained low (2.0%) with the majority of post-operative COVID-19-infected patients (\n                      <jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\n                      = 13) having underlying medical co-morbidities and\/or suffering from post-operative complications.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The capacity to safely treat patients requiring urgent or emergency neurosurgical care was maintained at all times. Strategies adopted to enable this included proactively approaching the referrers to maintain lines of communications, incorporating modern technology to run clinics and MDTs, restructuring patient pathways\/facilities, and initiating the delivery of NHS care within private sector hospitals. 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