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Over 155 members of the Inequalities in Health Alliance (IHA) have signed a letter to Dr Thérèse Coffey

Call for HCPs Interested in Improving Care Before Cancer Surgery

NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) triggered an ‘amber alert’ on 12 October, meaning hospitals have been asked to put in place management plans to protect blood stocks.

Read the updated 'Guideline for the Management of Anaemia in the Perioperative Pathway'

Pre-surgical health optimisation: what is the impact of asking patients to lose weight before joint replacement surgery

Find out more about the guideline and share the presentation video

An updated CQUIN to ensure patients drink, eat and mobilise as soon as possible after surgery has been published for 23/24.

NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) has advised that its red cell and group A platelet stock levels are low and in a pre-amber alert status for both.

NatSSIPs 2 publication

This latest survey indicates that in general, we are getting older when we undergo surgery. We are heavier than is good for us, not just overweight but often obese. We have more medical conditions that we are being treated for, therefore we will enter a surgical procedure at a greater risk from complications.