Hospital Characteristics

1.1a How many adult in-patient or overnight beds (including 23-hours stay) are currently available within the hospital? Do not include day-case beds

1.1b How many of these beds are found on adult general surgical in-patient wards? This means beds found on either specialist GI wards (eg upper-GI, lower-GI), or wards that accept any type of general surgical admissions. Do not include 23-hour beds in this answer, or specialist non-GI wards (eg ENT, urology, neurosurgery)

1.2 Does your hospital accept acute general surgical admissions?If No go to Q1.3

1.2a If Yes, when does your hospital accept acute general surgical admissions?

24hours per day, 7 days per week

yes

no

or

1.3 Do you have a dedicated emergency surgical unit that is separate from elective workload? i.e. a ward area where patients receive ongoing care, NOT a surgical admissions unit from which patients are relocated for continuing inpatient care.

yes

no

1.4 Is your hospital a tertiary referral centre for any gastro-intestinal surgical specialties?

yes

no

1.5 Is cardiothoracic surgery undertaken at this hospital?

yes

no

1.6 Does your hospital accept acute medical admissions?

yes

no

1.7 Do you have Elderly Medicine services on site?

yes

no

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