NELA QI Posters
Over the last few years the NELA Project has sponsored a Trainee Poster Prize at the AAGBI Winter Scientific Meetings and ASGBI International Surgical Congresses. This is for the best poster that uses local hospital NELA data to bring about an improvement in the quality of care.
The members of the Project Team have been very impressed by the posters submitted to date and are thrilled to see NELA data being used on a local level to drive Quality Improvement.
As a result we are happy to share some of the Posters submitted to demonstrate how NELA participants continue to put the patient data to good use.
AAGBI WSM 2020 Posters
View 2020 Abstracts - 
NELA trainee shortlisted abstracts.pdf (79 KB)
NELA and critical care: a novel data collection tool to overcome barriers to critical care admission at Wirral University Hospital NHS Trust
W. Bansema and S. Carey
Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Trust
Improving case ascertainment and patient outcomes through improving our local National Emergency Laparotomy Audit pathway
V. Bennett, B. Ertansel, I. Sharieff, C. Patel and I. Nikolopoulos
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
Using local National Emergency Laparotomy Audit data to focus quality improvement in increasing intra-operative consultant presence for high-risk cases
C. Lewis and T. Rope
London North West Healthcare NHS Trust
Local quality improvement to increase the number of high-risk emergency laparotomy patients having postoperative critical care
L. Liu and T. Rope
Northwick Park
Is this National Emergency Laparotomy Audit? A National Emergency Laparotomy Audit awareness project
S. Selvarajah and T. Tanqueray
Homerton University Hospital
Learning from deaths: a mortality review of emergency laparotomies at Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
N. Williams, S. Churchill, T. Duncan, H. de Berker, S. Allen and M. Coakley
University Hospital of Wales
AAGBI WSM 2019 Posters
NELA as a lever for change: using National Emergency Laparotomy Audit standards to drive improvements in perioperative services for older people
R. de Las Casas, C. Meilak, A. Whittle, J. Partridge, J. Dhesi
Quality improvement project: introducing postoperative continuous rectus sheath blocks for emergency laparotomy-year 1 results. Time to abandon opioid PCA?
H. Findley, C. Gravina, N. Smith, L. Perry, I. Driver
A modern approach to NELA data collection: the use of a mobile application to bring about an improvement in the emergency laparotomy service at Aintree University Hospital
R. Jones, M. Bridge
NELA and pain management
J. Noyes, D. Saunders, A. Blackburn, N. Stephens, E. Flynn
Improving pain management for emergency laparotomy patients
C. Oliver, G. Roberts, M. Coakley
Geriatric review after emergency laparotomy: improving review rates of NELA patients older than 70 years
C. Trainer, S. Mufti, S. Green, T. Tanqueray
How to improve the care of the emergency laparotomy patient: utilising the structured judgement review to enhance learning from deaths at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
J. Wheatley, S. Lovell, I. Sivanandan, L. McMenamin, C. Schofield, K. Varley
AAGBI WSM 2018 Posters
NELA and emergency theatre risk scoring considerably improved by introduction of electronic booking
G. Gladstone, H. Hammerbeck, M. Turnbull, A. Rashid
Resurrecting NELA at Newham: factors in laparotomy care in a district general hospital
M. Shaw
The development of a PPOSSUM risk based landing card improved documentation of predicted preoperative risk in patients undergoing emergency laparotomy
L. Verschueren, M. Oliver, S. Bampoe
Use of patient focus groups in enhancing the emergency laparotomy patient experience
S. Williams, M. Leong, H. Usma, E. Decker, N. Kukreja, S. Hare
AAGBI WSM 2017 Posters
Protective lung ventilation in emergency laparotomy patients
A. Coombs, A. Pickford
Implementation of an emergency laparotomy pathway to improve the quality of care delivery for
the high risk general surgical patients undergoing emergency laparotomy
A. Garland, M. Marsden, L. Zucco, S. Body, E. Stewart-Parker, T. Williams
Cumulative marginal gains to improve the quality of care and reduce mortality of patients
undergoing emergency laparotomy surgery
J. O'Carroll, M. Engleback, L. Campbell, G. Lawton, D. Moult
Peri-operative risk calculation and reduction in NELA patients
P. Tapley, J. McEwan, V. Tucker
Using NELA data to produce sustained improvements in patient outcomes: data analysis and
feedback strategies at Homerton University Hospital
N. Walker, J. Lehman, T. Tanqueray
AAGBI WSM 2016 Posters
Management of Sepsis in patients undergoing emergency laparotomy - An audit of local NELA data.pdf (107 KB)
NELA at Homerton Hospital - Creating a new culture in peri-operative care.pdf (139 KB)
