Surgical Lessons from Basra and Bastion for the Modernisation of NHS Trauma Care

David A Rew TD MA MB MChir FRCS
Consultant Surgeon, Southampton University Hospitals
And to the Defence Medical Services Reserve
Council Member & Wessex Regional Rep, ASGBI

Introduction
War has often been the greatest stimulus to technological and organisational innovation. The past decade has seen a transformation in the modus operandi of the Defence Medical Services (DMS) and of the quality of its clinical outputs under the extreme pressures of war in Iraq and Afghanistan, and under a continuous media and political spotlight.

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