Improving Services for Patients with Groin Hernias: Reducing Waiting Times for Surgery

Autor:	H Al-Momani, T. D. Reid, P Plumb, GL Williams, J. Lloyd‐Evans, Brian M Stephenson, Zubair Saeed
Rok vydání:	2013
Předmět:	Waiting time medicine.medical_specialty Groin business.industry General Medicine medicine.disease Surgery Secondary care Inguinal hernia surgical procedures operative medicine.anatomical_structure Waiting list medicine Outpatient clinic business
Zdroj:	The Bulletin of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. 95:232-234
ISSN:	1478-7075 1473-6357
DOI:	10.1308/003588413x13643054410502
Popis:	Inguinal hernia repair is one of the most common operations performed in the UK, with over 70,000 procedures carried out per year. Consequently, patients with groin hernias place a major demand on the surgical resources of our NHS hospitals. Patients referred to secondary care for a repair are typically first assessed in the outpatient department, where an appropriate pre-assessment is arranged, and then either a date for surgery is allocated or the patient is placed on a waiting list. Moreover, as the priority for many of these steps on this pathway is typically 'routine' rather than 'urgent', the vast majority of patients with groin hernias will experience a considerable wait after seeing their family doctor.
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