ELAB Series: Understanding efficiency, scheduling and capacity in operating theatres (40:12)

Join Jaideep Pandit, Professor of Anaesthesia at the University of Oxford, for a session on understanding "efficiency" in the context of open theatres. He will discuss how most meaningfully to measure efficiency in the context of operating theatres, specifically rejecting surrogate metrics like starting on time or utilisation.  The session will then focus on how best to achieve efficiency, which is to schedule accurately. In the final part it will consider what is meant by capacity in the context of operating theatres, and how to plan for it for both elective and emergency theatres. The lecture will challenge many embedded notions and offer working examples to help the audience understand the principles.