Great meeting today at the National ENT Audit Day. Lots of interesting discussion about emergency care, including periorbital cellulitis, tonsillectomy complications and neck infections. It was great to see so many people scrutinising patient care, striving to make it better, and share good practice.
Good news! Previously grommets surgery was not funded in children under 3 years of age in Nottinghamshire. However, grommets surgery is now being funded irrespective of age. The other funding criteria
NHS England has published their response to the public consultation on Procedures of Limited Clinical value (things like tonsillectomy and grommets). This looks like a sensible approach. I hope this i
New research study today reports that 7 out of 8 children having tonsillectomy are unlikely to benefit from surgery, based on a large study of GP databases. However, they seem to have forgotten about