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: