Mark Skues
Consultant Anaesthetist and Director of Day Surgery,
Countess of Chester NHS Foundation Trust
Originally appointed as a consultant in Chester in 1992, I underwent a second formal consultant appointment interview as Director of Day Surgery in the same hospital in May 2000. This coincided with plans to commission a "standalone" environment that opened as the Jubilee Day Surgery Centre in August 2002, a unit that is now ranked within the top 15% in England by external review.
An enthusiastic proponent of evidence based care in the Day and Short Stay environment, work carried out in Chester on optimal management of postoperative nausea and vomiting won the prize for best poster presentation at the ASM in 2005, and was updated by invitation to lecture in 2006. I was involved with the development of the 2007 Procedure Directory, particularly by constructing and maintaining the reference database for the BADS website that now contains over 1000 abstracts. I was awarded the BADS Fellowship in 2007. A co-author of the Day Surgery Unit Index, my ongoing interest involves development of performance indicators based upon the Procedure Directory. Regional developer of a training package for Day Surgery on behalf of the Mersey School of Anaesthesia, and clinical co-founder of the Cheshire and Merseyside Day Surgery Network Group, I would welcome the opportunity to support the ongoing national promulgation of Association remits, should I be elected to Council.
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