GOOD SURGICAL

PRACTICE
Good Surgical Practice
sets out standards for all surgeons
and their practice.
 Good Surgical Practice

Safety and Quality

A. Contribute to and comply with systems

to protect patient
 measure and monitor performance and
quality of care to reduce risk of harm to
patients
 Good Surgical Practice

 Ensure consistency in patient safety

- WHO Surgical Safety Checklist

 Measure quality and outcomes

 Good Surgical Practice

Safety and Quality

B. Respond to risks to safety

- To put the care and safety of patients
above all other considerations and take
action or ‘speak up’ through the appropriate
channels when concerns arise.
 Good Surgical Practice

Safety and Quality

C. Protect patients and colleagues from any risk

posed by your health
- Surgeons have a duty to maintain safe care
at all times and not to work in any health
stated that might impair judgement and/or
jeopardise patient safety.
 Good Surgical Practice

Communication, Partnership and

teamwork

A. Communicate effectively
- Effective communication and clarity
of information exchange is essential
quality of care and patient safety.
 Good Surgical Practice

Communication with patients

Communication with colleagues

 Good Surgical Practice
Communication, Partnership and
teamwork

B. Work collaboratively with colleagues to

maintain and improve patient care

- The provision of high quality surgical

services requires effective teamworking
within and between teams.
 Good Surgical Practice

Individual Behavior

Teamworking
 Good Surgical Practice
Communication, Partnership and
teamwork

C. Teaching, training, supporting and

assessing
- engage in training and supervision of
students, trainees, and other members
of surgical team
 Good Surgical Practice

 Medical students
 Surgeons in training
 Staff grades, associate specialists
and specialty surgeons
 Locum surgeons
 Good Surgical Practice
Communication, Partnership and
teamwork
D. Continuity and coordination of care

-Effective continuity of care is vital in

protecting patient safety.
- To convey high quality and appropriate
clinical information to incoming healthcare
professionals
 Good Surgical Practice
Communication, Partnership and teamwork

E. Establish and maintain partnerships with

patients
- effective relationships with patients and
their supporters
- honest and sensitive discussion about
options for treatment that leads to informed
and deliberate consent.
 Good Surgical Practice

Consent
Preoperative checks
Patient Feedback
Responding to harm and duty of
candour
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