Executive Summary: The Second Patient Report of the National Emergency Laparotomy Audit

Reports, Patient Focused Reports | Published: 05 Jul 2016

The Second Patient Audit Report of the National Emergency Laparotomy Audit (NELA)covers patients who underwent emergency bowel surgery (emergency laparotomy) between December 2014 and November 2015. It describes the care received by these patients within English and Welsh NHS hospitals as well as hospital-level patient mortality.The full report is available to download from this page

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Executive Summary: The Second Patient Report of the National Emergency Laparotomy Audit