Method
The Hillingdon Hospital NHS Foundation Trust perform on average over 600
elective primary lower limb joint replacement surgeries each year across
2 main sites (Hillingdon Hospital and Mount Vernon Hospital). This
project originated as an audit to look into the compliance of a locally
implemented protocol (Figure 1) in the pre-assessment clinic to
identify, evaluate, and effectively manage anaemic patients booked for
elective primary lower limb surgery.
Figure 1: