Table.
Trainee experience and consultant supervision for all elective and emergency resections
| Grade of surgeon | No (%) of operations
|
No (%) of operations undertaken by trainees who were supervised by consultant
|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lothian and Borders | Trent and Wales | Wessex | Lothian and Borders | Trent and Wales | Wessex | ||
| Elective: | |||||||
| Consultant | 692 (63.4) | 1399 (58.7) | 2308 (60.6) | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Senior registrar | 225 (20.6) | 324 (13.6) | 584 (15.3) | 72 (32) | 65 (20) | 47 (8) | |
| Registrar | 161 (17.7) | 544 (22.8) | 683 (17.9) | 85 (53) | 150 (28) | 153 (22) | |
| Senior house officer | 14 (1.3) | 115 (4.8) | 122 (3.2) | 9 (64) | 54 (47) | 32 (26) | |
| Other | 0 | 0 | 111 (2.9) | 0 | 0 | 6 (5) | |
| Total* | 1092 (100) | 2382 (100) | 3808 (100) | 166 (15.2) | 269 (11.3) | 232 (6.1)† | |
| Emergency: | |||||||
| Consultant | 188 (38.9) | 154 (30.9) | 133 (21.7) | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Senior registrar | 159 (32.9) | 99 (19.9) | 162 (26.5) | 19 (12) | 5 (5) | 4 (2) | |
| Registrar | 127 (26.3) | 223 (44.7) | 250 (40.9) | 32 (25) | 26 (12) | 17 (7) | |
| Senior house officer | 9 (1.9) | 23 (4.6) | 37 (6.0) | 2 (22) | 4 (17) | 3 (8) | |
| Other | 0 | 0 | 30 (4.9) | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Total | 483 (100) | 499 (100) | 612 (100)‡ | 53 (11.0) | 35 (7.0) | 24 (3.9) | |
*
Does not include 89 cases in which the operating surgeon was unknown (4 in Lothian and Borders, 85 in Wessex).
†
Does not include the six supervised operations undertaken by non-training grade surgeons.
‡
Does not include 7 cases in which the operating surgeon was unknown.