Elective surgery has returned to full capacity for public and private hospital patients in Greater Sydney as of Monday, according to NSW Health. This comes after a 75 percent cap on overnight non-urgent elective surgery had been in place in response to the outbreak of the delta variant of the CCP virus. NSW Health said the cap has been removed as a result of high vaccination rates and stable levels of community transmission. NSW AMA president Danielle McMullen told 2GB Radio on Monday that the hospitals in the Greater Sydney area can now deal with the backlog of patients brought about by months of restrictions. “The easing of these caps means hospitals and other health services can arrange their catch up work and their usual non-COVID work … and be able to participate in as much elective surgery as they can,” she said. In regional and rural NSW, non-urgent elective …