1 CASE STUDY Theatres Improvement Programme Background This large University Hospital in the Republic of Ireland served one of Ireland’s major cities and its surrounding localities. It also acted as a specialist site for various surgical procedures. The Theatres Suite housed 5 operating theatres, accessed by a variety of surgical specialties and serving both inpatients and day cases. The Theatres Department had limitations in both constraining physical estate capacity, as well as resource constraints in the nursing team in place. The hospital as a whole was under significant pressures in terms of access to inpatient beds and the levels of overtime being paid to the nursing team to accommodate poor planning of the theatre lists. An improvement

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