Day Surgery Networks
Day Surgery Procedures
If you need a Day Surgery Procedure, go to a provider in the Fund's Network. Use the MaPS tool on our website to find the nearest provider: <address>. For complex cases or procedures needing a longer stay, a clinical exceptions process will apply. Members will be moved to the right facility if needed. If you use a provider outside the Network, you'll have to pay a deductible.
Procedures that must be performed at a facility in the Day Surgery Network
Biopsies
Skin, subcutaneous tissue, soft tissue, muscle, bone, lymph, eye, mouth, throat, breast, cervix, vulva, prostate, penis, testes
Breast procedures
- Mastectomy for gynaecomastia
- Lumpectomy (fibroadenoma)
Ear, nose and throat procedures
- Tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy
- Repair nasal turbinates, nasal septum
- Simple procedures for nosebleed (extensive cautery)
- Sinus lavage
- Scopes (nasal endoscopy, laryngoscopy)
- Middle ear procedures (mastoidectomy, myringoplasty, myringotomy and grommets)
Eye procedures
- Cataract surgery
- Corneal transplant
- Treatment of glaucoma
- Other eye procedures (removal of foreign body, conjunctival surgery [repair laceration, pterygium], glaucoma surgery, probing and repair of tear ducts, vitrectomy, retinal surgery, eyelid surgery, strabismus repair)
Ganglionectomy gastrointestinal procedures
- Gastrointestinal scopes (oesophagoscopy, gastroscopy, colonoscopy, sigmoidoscopy, proctoscopy, anoscopy)
- Anorectal procedures (treatment of haemorrhoids, fissure, fistula)
Gynaecological procedures
- Colposcopy with LLETZ
- Diagnostic dilatation and curettage
- Diagnostic hysteroscopy
- Diagnostic laparoscopy
- Endometrial ablation
- Examination under anaesthesia
- Simple vulval and introitus procedures: Simple hymenotomy, partial hymenectomy, simple vulvectomy, excision Bartholin's gland cyst
- Suction curettage
- Vaginal, cervix and oviduct procedures: Excision vaginal septum, cyst or tumour, tubal ligation or occlusion, uterine cervix cerclage, removal of cerclage suture
- Uterine evacuation and curettage
Incision and drainage of abscess and cyst
- Subcutaneous tissue, soft tissue, bone, bursa, mouth, tonsil, pilonidal, ovary, Bartholin's gland, vagina
Nerve procedures
- Neuroplasty median nerve, ulnar nerve, digital, nerve of hand or foot, brachial plexus
Orthopaedic procedures
- Arthroscopy, arthrotomy (shoulder, elbow, knee, ankle, hand, wrist, foot, temporomandibular joint), arthrodesis (hand, wrist, foot)
- Minor joint arthroplasty (intercarpal, carpometacarpal and metacarpophalangeal, interphalangeal joint arthroplasty)
- Tendon or ligament repair, muscle debridement, fascia procedures (tenotomy, tenodesis, tenolysis, repair/reconstruction, capsulotomy, capsulectomy, synovectomy, excision tendon sheath lesion, fasciotomy, fasciectomy). Subject to individual case review
- Repair bunion or toe deformity
- Treatment of simple closed fractures or dislocations, removal of pins and plates. Subject to individual case review
Removal of foreign body
- Subcutaneous tissue, muscle, external auditory canal under general anaesthesia.
Simple superficial lymphadenectomy skin procedures
- Debridement
- Removal of lesions (dependent on site and diameter)
- Simple repair of superficial wounds
Urological procedures
- Cystoscopy
- Male genital procedures (circumcision, repair of penis, exploration of testes and scrotum, orchiectomy, epididymectomy, excision hydrocoele, excision varicocele vasectomy)