Distilling the ideas central to managing operating theatres, this book provides a practical and easy to use toolkit to improve theatre efficiency and patient outcomes. It advocates using time as the key measurement and proposes a new norm of operating theatre management based on rational, data-driven principles. Notions of 'efficiency' and 'scheduling' are clearly defined, and a scheduling toolkit available to download accompanies the work. The book's easy to use format supports managers in list planning, performance monitoring and demand-capacity matching while considering limited budgets and resources. It includes contributions from around the world, demonstrating the global application of its core approach. Aimed primarily at operating theatre managers, this book will also interest consultants, senior trainees, nurses and administrators who are involved in the daily running of the operating theatre and/or want to develop their leadership/managerial skills.

A practical manual that focuses on theatre efficiency and time measurement, providing scheduling toolkits and problem solving approaches.

About the Author
Jaideep J. Pandit is Consultant Anaesthetist at Nuffield Department of Anaesthetics, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, and Professor and Fellow of St John's College, Oxford, where he teaches Physiology. He has been awarded prestigious professorships and lectureships, including the Macintosh Professorship of the Royal College of Anaesthetists 2011, Visiting Professor at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm 2018, Jobson Visiting Professor at the University of Sydney and USP Professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 2017. He is an elected Member of Council at the Royal College of Anaesthetists, and 2015-18 Clinical Advisor to NHS England's New Care Models.

Reviews
'This book is a useful resource to anesthesiologists, operating room managers, and financial analysts on the topics of data-driven metrics. It provides a unique educational resource for those who are new to the topic of operating room efficiency, utilization, and productivity.' Axel Rodriguez and Amr E. Abouleish, Anesthesiology
'... Practical Operating Theatre Management: Measuring and Improving Performance and Patient Experience delivers on both content and readability supported by data-driven metrics, making it a useful resource for clinical staff, theatre managers, and hospital management alike. I highly recommended it for future healthcare management course curricula.' Jaideep J. Pandit, Canadian Journal of Anesthesia



Book Information
ISBN 9781316646830
Author Jaideep J. Pandit
Format Paperback
Page Count 206
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 460g
Dimensions(mm) 245mm * 189mm * 10mm