Operating Department Practice

About this course

Operating department practice is the clinical discipline concerned with providing care to patients across the three phases of surgery: anaesthesia, the intraoperative period when surgery is actually taking place, and the post-anaesthetic care and recovery phase. Operating department practitioners work as part of the surgical team in hospital theatres, and their role demands both technical skill and the ability to remain calm, attentive, and effective in a high-stakes clinical environment. It is a career that sits at the heart of acute healthcare, and the people who choose it tend to be motivated by the combination of procedural precision and direct patient care it involves. At the University of Huddersfield, this three-year full-time programme leads to professional registration with the Health and Care Professions Council and qualification as an operating department practitioner. The pr

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