A survey of senior nurses in 100 randomly selected large (<30 000 new patients/year) UK Accident & Emergency Departments (AED) was undertaken to investigate which grade of staff/specialty sutured facial lacerations and to obtain an inter-specialty perspective of standards of care. Of the 80 hospitals whose AED senior nurse responded, half had resident oral and maxillofacial surgeons but only 20/100 had resident plastic surgeons.
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