Department of General Surgery

The Department of General Surgery is a major provider of acute surgical care and tertiary and quaternary surgical services in Singapore. We provide comprehensive surgical services in general and surgical subspecialties including endovascular surgery, surgical oncology, minimally invasive surgery, surgical endoscopy, trauma and liver transplant.

Clinical Services

Acute Care Surgery Service

• Consultant led dedicated service managing trauma and a wide variety of emergency general surgical conditions
• Integrated multi-disciplinary approach to trauma cases
• Collaboration with Theatre services, Intensive care, and Emergency department
• Prompt access to urgent endoscopy
• Multiple outpatient clinics to assess patients post-discharge
• Regular teaching sessions for junior doctors and nurses
• Quality assurance and research projects

Trauma Service

• Integrating multi-disciplinary care of the multiply injured patient
• Trauma Registry
• Quality Assurance activities
• Educational lectures for doctors and nurses

Nutritional Support Services

Dedicated Surgeons, Physicians, Nursing Officers, Dieticians and Pharmacists provide multi-disciplinary Nutritional Support Service for patients requiring enteral or parenteral nutritional support.