1. All patients who have had recent surgery should be referred to the appropriate surgical team, or the surgical team on-call if they re-present with related symptoms (for example a clinically suspected DVT in a patient following any type of surgery, any abdominal symptoms in a patient having had an abdominal procedure, any lower limb symptoms in a patient having lower limb bypass surgery etc.)
2. All patients with abdominal pain who require admission should be referred to the surgical team on-call
3. Patients who are referred (by their GP) for surgical admission, should not be discharged without the on-call surgical team informing the GP
4. All surgical admissions and discharges (by surgical team) must be discussed with the surgical registrar on call