Adult ENT day surgery: a case for expansion of services

Abstract

Day case surgery is acknowledged to have many advantages over inpatient surgery, including greater efficiency, reduced risk of infection, reduced waiting lists and lower costs. 1 Although in the past two decades day surgery has experienced a gradual expansion of services in the UK, the 2001 Audit Commission report on day surgery showed that there was still far more potential for expansion 2 and the Department of Health launched the 'day surgery strategy' in January 2002 with the specific aim of increasing and improving day surgery in the NHS.

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