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Our main surgical sites at °ëµºÌåÓý Park and Wexham Park offer a comprehensive emergency general surgery service. They both have fully staffed emergency departments, and emergency care is offered by the on-site emergency general surgical team.

The emergency surgery department/unit provides a high level of effective and efficient care for our emergency surgical patients. It practices evidence-based surgery and adheres to all current national  and  guidelines for the management of emergency surgical patients and facilitate implementation of .

We provide a frontline consultant-led cover for emergency surgical admissions as well as covering the planned weekly CEPOD operating (Hot CEPOD) lists. We also run the daily emergency general surgery ambulatory clinics (EGSAC).

In addition to emergency surgery, the current sub-speciality interests amongst the emergency surgery unit consultants include benign UGI / HPB (including oesophageal manometry and pH studies), coloproctology, endoscopy (including ERCP), complex hernia repair and complex abdominal wall reconstruction as well as laparoscopic surgery.

Surgical emergency unit (SEU)

This is an ambulatory care unit which offers an urgent/emergency assessment, diagnosis, and treatment service. It provides appropriate streaming of stable patients with surgical pathology to the team that can care for them most appropriately and expediently.