elective care

A term for routine care in the UK, which can be planned or booked following a referral by a GP or an outpatient clinic.

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Board members at University Hospital Aintree yesterday approved plans for work to start on the new three storey Elective Care Centre in summer 2008.

The new Walton Hospital revealed

Contract notice: Provision of a Strategic Partner for Elective Care Services.

Provision of a Strategic Partner for Elective Care Services

The Duke toured the pounds 34m Elective Care Centre, which houses day surgery theatres, outpatient clinics and an endoscopy centre.

DUKE OPENS NEW UNIT AT HOSPITAL

It should be the norm in all elective care, when patients are pre-booked in for hospital treatment, and it remains the ideal for when treatment is unscheduled.

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PROJECT and cost consultancy Davis Langdon has been appointed cost adviser to the Aintree Hospitals for the pounds 40m Elective Care Centre, to be built under a Private Finance Initiative on the University Hospital Aintree site in Liverpool.

Hospital project adviser

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Ann Wright, director of elective care at Northumbria, said: "To get the best possible treatment a patient needs to see one of our highly skilled team of specialist surgeons, but it is no longer possible to offer that sort of expertise on an emergency basis at Hexham."

Hospital upgrade demand

UNIVERSITY Hospital Aintree: pounds 112.9m was approved to build an Elective Care Centre, for day surgery and outpatient activity currently being handled by Walton hospital.

What's planned for the region?

He added: "The reforms represent a revolution in traditional approaches to the provision of what we call elective care services,"

Waiting lists plan unveiled

It is estimated that funding of Au40 million for elective care and diagnostics will allow up to a further 40,000 assessments and 15,000 treatments in additional operations and treatments by the end of March 2016.

United Kingdom : Foster announces over Au47 million additional funding for Health

Ann Wright, director of elective care at Northumbria, said: "To get the best possible treatment, a patient needs to see one of our highly skilled team of specialist surgeons, but it is no longer possible to offer that on an emergency basis at Hexham.

Chiefs ask for your views on their cuts

Emergency and major elective care surgery will be transferred to the Erne in the first few months of next year and building work on the new hospitals is scheduled to begin in 2007.