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Saws and scalpels to lasers and robots: advances in surgery

Clinical case for change: Report by Professor Sir Ara Darzi, National Advisor on Surgery

  • Document type:
    Report
  • Author:
    Department of Health
  • Published date:
    17 April 2007
  • Primary audience:
    Health and social care professionals, Public
  • Product number:
    281164
  • Gateway reference:
    8130
  • Pages:
    12
  • Copyright holder:
    Crown

Professor Sir Ara Darzi – national advisor on surgery – makes the clinical case for change in the NHS from a surgical perspective. In particular, he argues that patients will only fully benefit for advances in surgical technology in a redesigned service, where local centres carry out around 80 per cent of surgery, with the remaining 20 per cent of planned surgery being carried out in specialised centres.

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