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Blogmas: Learning Disability 8-week Surgical Pathway team
Our Learning Disability 8-week Surgical Pathway team was developed and implemented by Neil Brown, Rebecca Saville and Richard Bunn. The Pathway scooped a Celebrating Excellence Award in the Outstanding Service Improvement, Research and Innovation – Clinical category. During the Covid-19 pandemic it was recognised that patients with a learning disability were waiting longer for their operations due to their procedures being classed as routine. Thanks to the pathway patients with a learning disability are now prioritised for surgery and benefitting from an increased life expectancy.
Here's Neil to kick off our festive countdown:
There’s lots of exciting things happening at Mid Yorks, what are your plans for the coming year?
Our plans are to spread and scale the 8 week surgical pathway to cover the front end of a patients pathway by arranging an out-patient appointment within 8 weeks. The aim would be to see and treat any patients with a Learning Disability in 22 weeks or sooner (8 weeks for OP, 6 weeks for Diagnostic and 8 weeks for surgery). Once in place we would love to spread this through the WYAAT Trusts and beyond.
What are your plans for the festive period this year?
Spend time with my family and friends, eating and drinking and having a merry time.
What’s your favourite festive dish?
Turkey dinner all day long!!!!!!
What’s been your best present ever?
As a kid – A chopper bike.
As an adult – a nights stay in Oldstead at Tommy Banks Restaurant – wow wow wow what glorious food.
What’s your favourite Christmas film?
You can’t look any further than Love Actually, what a great Christmas / family film.
Tinsel or twinkly lights?
Twinkly lights.
Do you have a favourite Christmas tradition?
Taking two days off to do my Christmas shopping and spending 10 hours in Meadowhell!
Tell us a Christmassy joke.
Why did Santa go to the hospital? Because of his bad “elf”.
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