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Day surgery
Expanding day surgery and combating inefficiency in day surgery are key ingredients of NHS modernisation.
Day surgery: operational guide
Published: 15/08/2002
This guide is an aide to managers and commissioners to improve efficiency in day surgery units. The NHS Plan sets the patient firmly at the centre of a framework for modernising the NHS. Taking forward the agenda to reduce waiting times, implement booking systems and introduce choice requires fundamental changes in practice and for the NHS to "do things differently".
Yardstick: Day Surgery Benchmarking Tool - (Gateway No. 3544)
The Yardstick Day Surgery Benchmarking Tool (Version 1.0) is a Microsoft Excel-based application, which allows users to compare Acute NHS Trusts' daycase rates for the 25 day surgery procedures that make up the Audit Commission's 'Basket'.
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