NON-emergency operations at a number of local hospitals have been cancelled due to today's snowfall.

People with non-urgent appointments or surgery have been asked to avoid Bradford Royal Infirmary, St Luke’s Hospital or Westwood Park Diagnostic and Treatment Centre.

A spokesperson for Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust said: “Due to the exceptional bad weather we are advising patients not to come to Bradford Royal Infirmary, St Luke’s Hospital or Westwood Park Diagnostic and Treatment Centre for non-urgent outpatient appointments or surgery.

“We would ask patients to please stay at home and wait to hear from us about dates for rearranged appointments and operations.

“We apologise to patients for any inconvenience caused and we will aim to send out details of new appointments in the next few days.

“However, if patients have managed to reach hospital for an outpatient appointment, we will try and see them as planned.

“To help our A&E department deal with those patients who need emergency care, we would urge people who don’t have an obvious life-threatening illness or injury to consider accessing advice and treatment from non-emergency organisations such as, your local pharmacy or GP surgery, NHS 111 or online advice from www.nhs.uk

“We are urging people to take care and only come to the A&E department if it is a medical emergency.

“Cold weather can affect health and people should try and keep warm. Advice can be found at the NHS Keep Warm, Stay Well website: https://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/winterhealth/Pages/KeepWarmKeepWell.aspx”