York Perioperative Medicine Service: Our Aims

• Improve surgical outcomes and reduce complication rates.
• Ensure co-ordinated care throughout the surgical journey.
• Triage patients to an appropriate post-operative location and improve patient flow.
• To implement and develop protocolised pathways that ensure patients recieved the care they require in a timely and safe manner.
• Continuously improve the patient experience of our surgical pathway.

York Teaching Hospital: Our Shared Commitment

Our ultimate objective is to be trusted to deliver safe, effective healthcare to our community.

Our values, drivers and motivators are:

• Caring about what we do
• Respecting and valuing each other
• Listening in order to improve
• Always doing what we can to be helpful

Supporting each other by

• Working in partnership and responding to local needs
• Respecting differences and building on similarities
• Empowering people to be involved in decisions about how we provide care
• Encouraging others to behave respectfully in line with our values