PROCEDURE FOR COMPILATION OF DAILY OPERATING LISTS

ROUTINE BOOKINGS

N.B. For emergency bookings see below.

1. Resident medical officers responsible for operating lists of their surgical consultant medical officers must personally bring the unabbreviated, legibly handwritten list to the departmental office.

2. The deadline for delivery of lists is 1200 hours on the last normal working day before the operating day.

3. Such lists should be as complete as possible and must, as a minimum include the patient's full name, age, ward, the medical record number as well as the procedure to be done and the anticipated duration of such procedure.

4. When the lists are all submitted, allocation of anaesthetists and registrars to appropriate lists is done by the coordinating anaesthetist.

5. Consultation with the senior nurse and radiographer on duty in the operating suite follows to ensure that staff in the suite is available to handle the programme.

6. The duration of lists must be strictly scrutinised and appropriate adjustments made to prevent overruns.

7. Any surgical team which does not submit a routine operating list, or whose list does not occupy the time available, relinquishes rights to such time. This time will be re-allocated at the discretion of the coordinating anaesthetist.

8. Day Stay Ward cases should, likewise, be so times as to have recovered sufficiently for discharge.

9. The anaesthetist responsible for compiling the Schedule must ensure that the surgeon or a member of his team is aware of any modification to the list submitted.

10. Any anaesthetist, who is scheduled to do other than their usual list, must be notified of the change.

11. Completion of Steps 4-5 should occur by 1400 hours to enable computerisation and printing of the lists by 1500 hours and distribution, where appropriate, to appropriate departments.

BOOKING OF EMERGENCY CASES

N.B. For routine bookings, see above.

12. Both in and out of hours, emergency cases need to be booked with the duty anaesthetist (08460). A completed operating list needs to be delivered to the anaesthetic department or operating suite (as directed by the 08460). In addition, the case needs to be written in the emergency case book located at the reception desk in the operating suite. Patient operation details, instrument requirements, date and time of booking and surgical urgency need to be notated. The 08460 will discuss the case and its scheduling with the nurse in charge (08780).