title: Model workload agreement for DGH general surgeon: discussion paper.
abstract: A guideline programme for a Consultant General Surgeon includes three operating lists, and two outpatient sessions per week. A General Surgical Consultant working with a 'standard' surgical team should expect to see approximately 1,000 new patients per year, and undertake an elective operative workload of 15 'hernia equivalent' procedures per week. A model workload such as this might assist surgical service planners to estimate the need for surgical staff in their Districts.
authors.affiliation: Taunton and Somerset Hospital.
authors.forename: C D
authors.initials: CD
authors.lastname: Collins
mesh_terms: D004739:England; D013502:General Surgery; D006801:Humans; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians'; D012017:Referral and Consultation; D013222:State Medicine