| Anorectal - Treatment of haemorrhoids, fissure, fistula | Covered for complicated cases that cannot be treated as an out-patient or where the out-patient treatment options failed and treatment is required in a medical facility |
| Biopsies | Skin, subcutaneous tissue, soft tissue, muscle, bone, lymph, eye, mouth, throat, breast, cervix, vulva, prostate, penis, testes |
| Breast | Lumpectomy (fibroadenoma) |
| Ear, nose and throat | Tonsillectomy and/or adenoidectomy (children up to 12 years) Simple procedures for nose bleed (extensive cautery) Sinus procedures (ethmoidectomy, sinusotomy and lavage) Scopes (nasal endoscopy, laryngoscopy) Middle ear procedures (myringoplasty, stapedectomy, myringotomy and/or grommets) Cochlear implant |
| Eye | Corneal transplant Cataract surgery Treatment of glaucoma Other eye procedures (removal of foreign body, conjunctival surgery (repair laceration, pterygium), glaucoma surgery, probing and repair of tear ducts, retinal surgery, eyelid surgery, strabismus repair) |
| Ganglionectomy | |
| Gastrointestinal | Gastrointestinal scopes (oesophagoscopy, gastroscopy, colonoscopy, sigmoidoscopy, proctoscopy, anoscopy) |
| Gynaecological | Cerclage of uterine cervix D&C (dilatation and curettage) Endometrial ablation Hysteroscopy Sterilisation Laparoscopic gynaecological procedures (aspiration ovarian cyst, salpingectomy, fulguration/ablation/lysis of lesions) |
| Incision and drainage | Abscess and/or cyst: skin (deep, non-superficial lesions), subcutaneous tissue and pilonidal |
| Orthopaedic | Arthroscopy, arthrotomy (shoulder, elbow, knee, ankle, hand, wrist, foot, temporomandibular joint), arthrodesis (hand, wrist, foot) Minor joint procedures (intercarpal, carpometacarpal and metacarpophalangeal, interphalangeal joint arthroplasty) Tendon and/or ligament repair, muscle debridement, fascia procedures (tenotomy, tenodesis, tenolysis, repair/reconstruction, capsulotomy, capsulectomy, synovectomy, excision tendon sheath lesion, fasciotomy, fasciectomy). Subject to individual case review Repair bunion or toe deformity Treatment of simple closed fractures and/or dislocations, removal of pins and plates. Subject to individual case review |
| Removal of foreign body | Subcutaneous tissue, muscle, external auditory canal under general anaesthesia |
| Simple superficial lymphadenectomy | |
| Skin | Debridement, removal of lesions, (dependent on size and diameter), simple repair of superficial wounds |
| Urological | Cystoscopy Removal of ureteral stones Male genital procedures (circumcision for medical reasons only and when authorised, vasectomy) |