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Aims NELA has been instrumental at improving perioperative care and 30–day mortality following emergency laparotomy (EmLap); long-term outcomes and follow-up are less well reported. This study aims to establish the unscheduled and scheduled service use of EmLap patients after discharge. Methods This is a single-centre service evaluation. Patients were included if they had an EmLap recorded from 2016-2019 at our local institute and were alive on discharge. Outcomes were 30-day readmission rate and outpatient follow-up. Results 944 patients were included. 11.9% re-presented to the surgical department within 30-days; 58.0% of these needed readmissions. The most common causes for re-presentation (n = 112) were management of a wound issue (15.2%), ongoing pain without evidence of complication (10.7%) and ongoing intra-abdominal sepsis (9.8%). 1-year survival was 81.4%. Of these (n = 856); 74.3% were invited to outpatients; DNA rate was 8.8%, with only 67.8% of patients having a follow-up review. Median time to follow up was 9 weeks. Patients were more likely to be invited for outpatient review if they had a new stoma (OR 2.56, 95% CI 1.81 – 3.56), and less likely if adhesiolysis was the primary procedure (OR 0.55, 95% 0.39-0.76). Patients who failed to attend an appointment were significantly younger (median age 53 vs. 60 years, p = 0.0033) and from more deprived areas (average WIMD 673.6 vs 977.3, p = 0.002). Conclusion This study demonstrates higher levels of unscheduled care and lower levels of scheduled care than expected. Care standards should be extended beyond the 30-day milestone to fully appreciate the morbidity associated from EmLap.

SP3.1.14 NELA; what happens after discharge?