Key points
- A total of 49,223 patients underwent endoscopic sinus surgery in
England between April 2014-March 2019.
- Rates of day-case surgery varied from 100% to 20.6% across hospital
trusts.
- There was no evidence of poorer outcomes for day-case patients.
- Day-case endoscopic sinus surgery appears to be safe when conducted as
day-case surgery.
- Hospital trusts not already conducting day-case endoscopic sinus
surgery as the default, should move to a day-case model to improve
service efficiency.