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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.