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## Aim: This study aimed to examine changes in the provision of vascular services in the oxford region over 5 years. ## Methods: A questionnaire was sent to all general surgeons in the region asking of their involvement in vascular surgery. data were obtained from the department of health concerning vascular procedures and inpatient codes for each district in the oxford region from 1990-1991 to 1994-1995. office of population censuses and surveys (opcs) data for abdominal aortic aneurysm repair and femoral artery reconstruction were validated against data collected prospectively for west berkshire. ## Results: Eighteen of 45 surgeons who replied to the questionnaire carried out elective and emergency arterial work. all were members of the vascular surgical society of great britain and ireland (vss). all but one took part in the general surgical rota. eight surgeons carried out emergency arterial surgery only; only two of these were members of the vss. of 19 surgeons undertaking no arterial surgery, 15 operated on primary and 11 on recurrent varicose veins. the number of arterial reconstructions rose from 20.8 per 100000 population to 28 per 100000 throughout the study. the greatest

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Author

Mr R. B. Galland; T. R. Magee

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); John Wiley & Sons Inc.; Wiley; Research Square; Oxford University Press (OUP) (ISSN 0007-1323)

Published

1998

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)