The Green Surgery Challenge 2021 is an opportunity for the UK’s surgical community to recognise the value of sustainable healthcare for surgical conditions: to share and promote ways of practising that are less harmful to the environment and our planet and build social sustainability: to continue to transform surgery for the future. What is the problem in surgery? Climate change is having far reaching consequences for planetary health, including within the…
Dear Colleague, We are all used to the acronym PROMS (patient-related outcome measures), as a tool to measure patient outcomes, moreover, with regret not many surveys been carried out to, assess DROMS, where ‘D’ stands for Doctor especially during the ongoing pandemic. With a lot of humility and proudness, attached is the 3-4 minute survey…
Dear ALSGBI Member During the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the ALSGBI has always been committed to support our members. As we are now coming out of the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, we wanted to write to you to follow up the surgical response to the first wave and to canvas your views on current…
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Average rating of this post is: 3 Some Intercollegiate guidelines in the UK on surgical management during the COVID-19 period have been in variance with those of the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES) and the European Association of Endoscopic Surgery (EAES). Initially, several regions placed restrictions on laparoscopic surgery but as the…
Registration for Cholecystectomy Quality Improvement Collaborative – 3 (Chole-QuIC3) will close on 7 March 2021. This groundbreaking project will offer frontline teams the opportunity to improve outcomes for patients with gallstone disease, whilst also developing transferable Quality Improvement skills. Our project team will assist you in introducing interventions and driving change that have the potential…
