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My PreOp is improving the capacity of pre-operative assessments

Online questionnaire that gets you ready for surgery

An online questionnaire that helps up to half of all patients avoid coming into hospital for a pre-operative appointment has allowed a London hospital to almost double its capacity for ensuring patients are fit for surgery.

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Healthcare workers helping a patient use stairs

Centre of excellence for inpatient orthopaedic surgery gets the go-ahead

A proposal to bring together most routine inpatient orthopaedic surgery in north west London in a new centre of excellence at Central Middlesex Hospital was approved today (Tuesday 21 March) by NHS North West London, the sector’s integrated care board. The proposal incorporates feedback from a 13-week public consultation that closed earlier this year involving almost 2,000 people.

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Mount Vernon Hospital lead the fight against TB

Hospital that prescribed fresh air and exercise

It’s World TB Day this week which raises awareness about the ongoing fight to globally eradicate the disease. We look back at a neighbouring hospital at the forefront of the fight against TB at the beginning of the 20th Century.

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