CPOC publishes recommendations to help deliver the government’s 10 Year Health Plan
The recommendations show how improving perioperative care can help deliver plans to shift care into the community, accelerate digital transformation, and strengthen prevention across the NHS.
The report highlights the impact of well-evidenced perioperative interventions, such as early screening, prehabilitation, medical optimisation, shared decision making, enhanced recovery and improved discharge planning, and sets out how these can reduce complications, shorten hospital stays and boost NHS productivity.
CPOC also calls for stronger national endorsement, improved digital systems, better funding mechanisms and investment in multidisciplinary perioperative teams to support consistent implementation across the country.
CPOC Fellow, Dr Alex Isted said: "These shifts offer a transformative future for patients, and at CPOC, we believe that perioperative care is essential for their delivery. Harnessing the potential of perioperative care would not only improve patient outcomes and experience, but also deliver long-term improvements in population health and make healthcare more economically sustainable.
“The next challenge is implementation. That’s why CPOC has published a set of practical recommendations to make the case to policymakers that high-quality perioperative care must be embedded throughout the delivery of the three shifts. The recommendations draw from examples of successful initiatives from across the UK."