TY - BOOK AU - Watson, Robert AU - Imison, Candace. AU - Crump, Helen AU - Gaskins, Matt AU - Currie, Claire TI - Emergency general surgery: challenges and opportunities SN - 9781910953099 PY - 2016/// CY - London PB - Nuffield Trust N1 - E-books; 60p N2 - The Nuffield Trust was commissioned by The Royal College of Surgeons of Englandto explore the challenges facing emergency general surgery (EGS) and to identifyopportunities to overcome those challenges. We undertook interviews with experts, arapid assessment of the literature and a novel quantitative analysis. This work fed intoa seminar held in September 2015 that was attended by senior stakeholders acrosssurgery, medicine, anaesthetics, radiology, pre-hospital medicine, advanced nursingand management.This report brings together the findings of our preliminary research, seminar andsubsequent exploration and analysis. It offers practical opportunities to improve theprovision of EGS and provides health care leaders with important points to considerwhen reviewing changes to EGS services UR - http://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/sites/files/nuffield/publication/nuffield_trust_egs_report_web_0.pdf ER -