Summary
Surgical morbidity and mortality (M&M) meetings have a central function in supporting services to achieve and maintain high standards of care. Throughout the UK, practices provides advice on the following topics: around the structure and content of M&M meetings vary widely and so does their quality. According to Good Surgical Practice, all surgeons should regularly attend morbidity and mortality meetings as a key activity for reviewing the performance of the surgical team and ensuring quality.
Content
The College’ s guidance is a practical guide for setting up, running and participating in high quality surgical M&M meetings.
- Preparation and organisation of meetings to ensure they are well-supported and attended.
- Effective chairing of meetings.
- Types of behaviours that participants should display to ensure discussions are held in an open and inclusive atmosphere.
- Presentation and discussion of cases
- Ensuring that actions arising from meetings are sucessfully completed and that lessons are learned and implemented.
The following templates are also available to assist teams in running a surgical M&M meeting:
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