The implementation cluster is a team of passionate clinicians and clinician-scientists aiming to improve surgical care service delivery.
Our vision is a world where patients from lower- and middle-income countries have equitable access to safe and high-quality surgical care, provided in a cost-effective manner, by resilient healthcare systems.
Our mission is to use evidence-based and innovative strategies to increase the capacity of surgical teams and systems to care for their patients. By deliberately focusing on unleashing inherent passion and capacity within healthcare workers in the system, we work to create an army of change agents, empowered to influence their own working environments for the benefit of their patients.
We believe that we are uniquely positioned to tap into the clinical, research and development expertise within the University of Cape Town, and the deep contextual knowledge of surgical care in lower- and middle-income countries, to grow the service delivery platform and thus grow both the education and research platforms. We work closely with the Global Surgery Research team to ensure our interventions are evidence-based. We rely on the Global Surgery Education team as an engine for developing change agents that help initiate and nurture our projects, and we align closely with the Advocacy team to ensure that we use the evidence we create to inform policy and to show the benefits of improved surgical care.
Team
- Rowan Duys
- Jocelyn Park-Ross
- Simon le Roux
- Ravi Oodit
Projects
Project TeamCare
We view grassroots healthcare workers as change agents and work with them to improve hospitals from within. During the Covid-19 pandemic our coaches have also provided emotional wellness support, trained hundreds of multidisciplinary staff in resuscitation care, and reduced vaccine hesitancy.
Global Surgery in Action
This project focuses on strengthening surgical capacity building in rural and district hospitals, and developing outreach models to improve surgical delivery.
ERAS in District Hospitals
This project focuses on the development and implementation of Enhanced Recovery after Surgery (ERAS) guidelines relevant to the lower- and middle-income country and district hospital environment.