Singleton, G; (2021) Major surgery during the coronavirus-19 pandemic - patients' experiences. UCL Division of Surgery and Interventional Science: London, UK.

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The SARS-Cov2 (COVID-19) pandemic has led to considerable change to the care of patients requiring major surgery in the UK. The rapid changes that were required to perioperative services were unprecedented in their scale, speed of implementation, and impact on staff, patients and the wider healthcare service. The implemented changes are largely unevaluated, particularly qualitatively, and from a patient perspective. Using qualitative methods, this study will aim to gain an understanding of patients’ experiences of the perioperative care provided during the pandemic. As a result of the pace of change, usual mechanisms for co-production with patients were largely swept aside. The findings of this study will be useful in identifying changes in the perioperative service that have been beneficial to patients. It is hoped that the results of this study will help in creating a framework that can be used by other institutions to enhance perioperative care pathways in the COVID-19 era and beyond. The study will also identify strategies that can be used within the NHS to support patient involvement in rapid change

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