Improving post-operative communication between primary and secondary care: the wound closure information card.

Unlabelled: Aim To assess and improve the quality of Secondary to Primary Care communication on discharge with a focus on post-surgical wound care.

Background: Hospital discharge summaries are the principle means of relaying accurate information back to primary care healthcare providers regarding a patient's hospital attendance and any ongoing care that is required. The quality of these summaries can be quiet varied both nationally and local to our Trust.

Interpersonal violence: quantifying the burden of injury in a South African trauma centre.

Introduction: Interpersonal violence is an epidemic in South Africa and remains an under-reported and expensive burden on health resources. In most of the developing world there is little or no descriptive information about the expense of treating the consequences of interpersonal violence.

Objective: To review the direct burden of interpersonal violence on a tertiary hospital in Northern KwaZulu-Natal, an area known to have high rates of poverty and violent crime.

Renal cell carcinoma in an ectopic pelvic kidney in a patient presenting with acute urinary retention.

The incidence of renal cell carcinoma in a pelvic kidney is rare, and has only been described in a very small number of cases. We describe a case where an incidental ectopic kidney with invasive renal cell carcinoma was diagnosed during a separate emergency admission for acute urinary retention.