FAL & the Client Organisations

FAL is aware of the current staffing levels of surgical assistants and their reduced availability. We are fully conversant with the legal and ethical problems a hospital and its surgeon faces if their surgical team lacks the services of a qualified surgical assistant. Having pooled together the resources of first rate surgical assistants you can be assured that the surgical assistants we provide are of the highest calibre and have attained the necessary surgical qualification to act as a “first assistant” to the operating surgeon. We have a bank of surgical assistants who are able to “first assist” surgeons in optimising their surgical treatment of their patients and maintain continuity in their surgical care.

Our surgical assistants will act as an integral part of the surgical team and can provide support throughout the perioperative period if required. More importantly they provide effective, quality service and enhance patient care.

Benefits of the service:

• Enables you to provide your surgeons with an individual who has followed and qualified under the required protocols of surgical assisting;
• The ability of FAL to match an assistant’s skill criteria to the requirements of the surgical procedure; Provides cost effectiveness with regard to recruitment, training, salaries and indemnity; and
• Reduces administrative procedures and concerns in relation to:
  • vicarious liability and accountability
  • legal and ethical implication
  • medical assessment
  • ongoing assessment of the surgical assistant’s role
  • development of associated clinical aptitudes

FAL's surgical assistants are available when you need them 7 days a week. FAL also offers an out of office hours on-call service.