The Operating Theatre Journal

• Patient Safety Alert:
  Wrong Selection of Orthopaedic Fracture Fixation Plates
   
• Another Patient Dies After Contracting Infection at NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Hospital
   
• Five Pregnant Women Deaths in 18 Months Sparks Birmingham Trust Investigation
   
• Blood Drop Emoji is Here – As is the Plaster and the Stethoscope!
   
• HCPC Appoints New Chair of Council
   
• Report Calls for NHS Workforce Culture To Be Measured and Reported to the CQC and NHS Improvement
   
• Could NHS Have Been Doing More Operations?
   
• GMB Consultative Ballot Results in Rejection of Proposed Changes to On-call Payment Calculations at Royal Alexandra Children's Hospital in Brighton
   
• Plans to Replace University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff with New Hospital Are Revealed
   
• St George's Hospital: 250 cardiac unit deaths to be reviewed
   
• Teen One of First UK Proton-beam Patients
   
• NHS Wales Agency Staff Costs Spiral to Cover Vacancies
   
• Gosport Hospital Deaths: Evidence 'strong enough to bring charges'
   
• Liver Transplant 'game changing' Treatment Approved
   
• Royal Colleges Call for Increased UK Visas for Physicians
   
• The Controlled Drugs National Group Newsletter
  December 2018
   
• Take Time to Breathe
  The Christmas 2018 Breathe Newsletter from Intersurgical
   
• Surgical Never Events -
  Learning from 38 cases occurring in English Hospitals between April 2016 and March 2017.
  Link to PDF review produced by Susan Burnett PhD, Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial college London on behalf of NHS Improvement.
   
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February 2019

• Leadership Study Day
  23 February 2019, Leeds
   

March 2019

• Future Healthcare 2019
  Exhibition & Conference
  18-19 March 2019, Olympia London
   
• Masterclass:
  Human Factors and the Operating Theatre -
  Practical Patient Safety Solutions
  22 March 2019
  De Vere West One Conference Centre, London
   

April 2019

• EBME Seminar & Expo. 10th. Anniversary
  3-4 April 2019, The Milton Keynes Arena
   
• Latest Advances in Cancer Pain Management:
  Basic Science to Clinical Practice
  11-12 April 2019, The Royal Marsden
   
• Day Case Hip & Knee Arthroplasty
  30 April 2019, London Marriott Hotel, Kensington
   

May 2019

• 7th ERAS World Congress
  1-3 May 2019, Liverpool
   
• 11th Annual APAA Conference Sheffield
  2-3 May, 2019, Sheffield Hallam University
   
• Urgent and Emergency Care:
  Integrating services to improve patient flow
  9 May 2019, The King's Fund
   
• Nurse Led Clinics - Preoperative Assessment
  2 Day Programme
  20-21 May 2019, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
   

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