Day case surgery

You have chosen to have your surgery with us and we hope your visit goes smoothly.

The procedure you are having is performed as a day case. This means you will come into hospital have your procedure and go home on the same day. You will be ready to leave approximately two hours after you wake up as long as all goes as planned.

Although with modern drugs anaesthetic leaves your body much faster, there are still some after effects such as feeling light headed that may persist for some time. In addition to this certain pain killing drugs may make you feel drowsy.

Although this does not require you to stay in hospital overnight, you still need to take some sensible precautions to ensure your safety while travelling home and for the first night at home. You should not drive for at least 24 hours.

We take your safety seriously and so it is a requirement that you arrange for a relative or friend (not a child) to collect you from the hospital. We recommend  you spend the first night with someone else in case you should feel unwell.

If you do not arrange this your surgery may well have to be cancelled that day and rescheduled to a time when you do have someone to go home with.

This is both an inconvenience for you and a waste of NHS funds as we will not be in a position to use that operating slot and it will therefore be wasted.

We ask that you bring the contact number for the person collecting you and give it to the Nurse who will get you ready for your surgery on the day. Also have an idea of how long it will take them to travel to the hospital to collect you.

The nurse looking after you will then contact your escort and advise them what time you will be ready to leave.