Hmm good job

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Process improvement innit.

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https://www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk/n...y-beat-backlog

Surgeons at Guy’s and St Thomas’ carried out a week’s worth of operations in one day to help reduce the surgery backlog.

Eight men with prostate cancer underwent a robotic-assisted radical prostatectomy, which was the first time in the UK that one hospital has completed eight cases of this kind in one day.

The Trust has developed a super-efficient but safe programme to maximise the number of patients treated using high intensity theatre lists – known as HIT lists. They focus on one type of procedure at a time, take place at weekends, and require careful planning to select suitable patients.

So far the Trust has held 17 HIT lists and treated 344 patients across eight specialities, including gastrointestinal, gynaecology, orthopaedics and ear nose and throat (ENT).

I wonder if they needed extra money?

Dr Ahmad said: “For many surgical procedures, the time required to perform the actual surgery is significantly less than the time spent preparing and anaesthetising the patient, setting up the equipment and helping the patient to recover – in some cases the operating time can be as little as 30% of the duration of the whole operating list.

“We have looked at every aspect of the patient’s pathway in detail to see where we can safely improve on efficiency, save time and parallel process in order to increase the surgeon’s operating time, by reducing non-operative time. It requires a dedicated multidisciplinary team and lots of preparation, which is the key to our success. It’s a bit like a Formula 1 pit stop crew where you have people who are all well trained and work together to do something very efficiently and safely.

“Our HIT lists have been so efficient that we have never overrun, despite the large number of cases per list, and our on day cancellation rate is less than 0.5% which is much lower than the national average.”