Challenging medicine: how to influence the agenda in foot surgery

Podiatric Surgery and the NHS
DoH ‘Feet First’ document promoted podiatric surgery on grounds of
evidence of effectiveness, cost, access, supply and demand issues
(1994)
1991-1993 RCS Commission on the Provision of Surgical Services
Working Party on foot hospital services:
“podiatrists with appropriate postgraduate training (FPodA) will
provide an ambulatory foot surgery service encompassing a range of
procedures on structures distal to the malleoli…” (Report
unpublished, minority report 1995)