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Welcome to this website for two of the DOAS projects

This website contains information about two of the DOAS projects that are running from March 2007 to the end of September 2007.


What is ‘Do Once & Share’?

Clinicians’ time is a precious resource, enabling clinicians and healthcare providers to share their knowledge, skills & experience which will minimise unknowing duplication & provide an agreed national approach to care. Action Teams will feed into the design, development & implementation of Connecting for Health (CfH).

The two projects are:

Initial Assessment for Unscheduled Care This project will develop a dataset for use during a patient’s initial assessment within the Health Service more info		Preoperative Assessment Prior to Elective Surgery This project will develop a dataset for use when assessing a patient prior to elective surgery more info
Policy context for project: Direction of travel for urgent care: A discussion document. Dept of Health. Oct.2006 Emergency access-clinical case for change: Report by Sir George Alberti, the National Director for Emergency Access Farrington-Douglas J, Brooks R, The future hospital: The progressive case for change, Institute for Public Policy Research, London. January 2007.		Facts and figures: The 18 Week target for elective care requires the timely delivery of pre-op assessment and potentially its use as a critical decision point within the pathway to ensure the patient is not only fit for surgery but fully understands the risks as well as the potential benefits