Mr Ashwini K Trehan MBBS, DRCOG, FRCOG, FRCS (Edin)
Consultant Minimal Access Gynaecologist
(with special interest in Endometriosis and Keyhole Surgery)
Speech by Lord Warner, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Lords, 8 September 2004: New Ways of Working in Surgery
"Last week on a ministerial visit to Yorkshire, I learnt about pioneering gynaecological surgery project where Ashwini Trehan and his team at Dewsbury District Hospital use keyhole surgery to carry out hysterectomies so that women return home the day after this major procedure. Dewsbury is thought to be the only hospital in the country where patients can leave hospital following a hysterectomy after just one night rather than staying in hospital for up to five days. Now this team there – and I'm keen to emphasise that it is a team effort – have encountered scepticism and they still have a long way to go to ensure that proven good practice is used everywhere."