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The See-and-Treat Clinic in Plastic Surgery: An Efficient, Cost-Effective, and Training-Friendly Setup

The ever-growing pressure on waiting times for initial consultation and treatment is a common problem in public hospitals. Limited resources and a lack of time available to clinicians are largely considered to be the main contributing factors.1 Accordingly, the managers of health services continue to implement initiatives to cut down waiting times.2 The conventional method of initially seeing the patients for consultation and then adding them to the waiting list for surgery at a later date has partly contributed to the growing problem of waiting lists. This setup is neither convenient nor efficient for patients requiring minor surgery. To offload the pressure from the main clinics so that more patients with major problems could be accommodated and seen sooner, one-stop see-and-treat clinics for patients requiring minor surgery were introduced in our plastic surgery department. This idea was initiated as a tool to reduce some of the waiting times for treatment and to increase efficiency of the department for minor surgery. While onestop pigmented lesion clinics have been successfully implemented in other units,3 a thorough MEDLINE search failed to reveal any reported experience of one-stop general minor surgery clinics by any other plastic surgery unit in the United Kingdom. We present 1 year’s experience with see-and-treat clinics in our department.