Children who need common, general or urological operations face delays or long journeys to specialist centres for routine elective and emergency surgical care. This is the finding of a new survey conducted by the Royal College of Surgeons Childrens Surgical Forum, funded by the Department of Health. The data, which covered NHS hospitals in England, also suggest that a shortfall in safe, sustainable and accessible General Paediatric Surgery (GPS) in District General Hospitals (DGHs) will continue unless local hospitals adopt measures to share resources, services and expertise and surgical training opportunities are taken up.
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