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Thank you for agreeing to complete this survey that we are conducting to get a better understanding of how Adult inpatients receive Critical Care.


Before attempting to answer the survey, having the following information at hand will make it easier to complete:

  • Numbers of beds in your hospital, Critical Care Units and Surgical wards.
  • Staffing levels on your Critical Care Units and Surgical wards.

Please do not include paediatric services when responding to this survey, other than for the question on Page 3 related to total number of beds in your hospital. In addition, for NHS trusts that operate on more than one hospital site, please provide responses for individual hospitals. You may save your progress and return to the survey at a later date if you cannot complete it all at once. Please do approach other members of the multi-disciplinary team to obtain information to complete the survey (e.g. Matron of Surgery, Bed Managers, ward Charge Nurses/Managers, etc).


If you have any queries, feel free to contact us by email: dwong@rcoa.ac.uk.


The survey is best completed using updated web-browsers such as Firefox or Google Chrome on a computer or laptop. Mobile devices are supported but the survey may appear distorted.


If you wish to print a paper copy of the survey form to fill in by hand and return later to complete it online, you can download a .pdf copy here, or alternatively a .docx copy here.


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Contact Details
For listing as a collaborator in future manuscripts.



You may select more than one role.

Details of organisation

Please contact us if you cannot find your Trust or Health Board in this list.

Sources: English NHS Trusts and Hospitals - http://www.nhs.uk/aboutNHSChoices/aboutnhschoices/how-we-perform/Pages/datasets.aspx Scottish Health Boards and Hospitals - http://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Hospital-Care/Hospitals/ Northern Irish HSC Trusts and Hospitals - http://online.hscni.net/hospitals/ Welsh Health Boards and Hospitals - http://www.wales.nhs.uk/ourservices/directory/hospitals/

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Hospital Services

Although NHS databases maintain information about this, the data available is aggregated for Trusts and Health Boards, and there is no updated data at individual Hospital-level. For this question only, please include paediatric beds in the total bed count.





Details of Critical Care Units
Please list the names of the ICU/HDU wards in your hospital and complete the information below. Then click "ADD ANOTHER UNIT" for every ICU/HDU ward in your hospital. For example, if your hospital has 1 ICU and 2 HDUs with separate dedicated spaces, we would expect a total of 3 entries (one for each unit).

Please do not enter details of any Post-Anaesthetic Care Units (PACUs) or Overnight Intensive Recovery (OIR) wards in this section, there will be an opportunity to describe these types of units in the next page.








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Other beds for high-risk patients

This can include any Post-Anaesthetic Care Units (PACUs) or Overnight Intensive Recovery (OIR) wards.


Details of other beds for high risk patients
Please list the names of the other bed areas in your hospital that can receive high-risk patients for enhanced perioperative care and complete the information below. Please also include any Post-Anaesthetic Care Units (PACUs), Overnight Intensive Recovery (OIR) wards, Obstetric HDUs or other wards with "monitored beds" in this section. Then click "ADD ANOTHER UNIT" for every additional such ward area in your hospital.



e.g, answer "2" for a 1:2 Nurse:Patient ratio.





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General ward beds for surgical patients

By surgical we include all procedures taking place in an operating theatre or radiology suite for which inpatient (overnight) stay is planned, including both planned and emergency/urgent surgery. Please count beds for all surgical subspecialties, including neurosurgery, cardiothoracic surgery, gynaecological surgery, etc. But please exclude obstetric beds.

Please exclude obstetric wards, i.e. pre-natal, post-natal, and labour wards.

Your hospital may have multiple surgical subspecialties. By "average" we mean a archetypical/stereotypical surgical ward, that may manage the most common inpatient surgical procedures at your hospital.

We would suggest asking the nurse-in-charge of the surgical ward you think fits the "average" description how many nurses she has staffed on the day you are completing the survey, for example.

We would suggest asking the nurse-in-charge of the surgical ward you think fits the "average" description how many nurses she has staffed on the day you are completing the survey, for example.

We would suggest asking the nurse-in-charge of the surgical ward you think fits the "average" description how many HCAs she has staffed on the day you are completing the survey, for example.

We would suggest asking the nurse-in-charge of the surgical ward you think fits the "average" description how many HCAs she has staffed on the day you are completing the survey, for example.
Policies and pathways



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