**5.1 Advantages of outpatient surgery**

There are many advantages of outpatient surgery which have an edge over traditional, inpatient surgical procedures. These include the following [8, 10, 11]:


F. **Efficiency.** Shorter waiting list for surgery, less hospital bed occupancy, more surgery, flexibility due to non-dependency on hospital beds leads to increased efficiency of the system leading to increased number of surgeries for any hospital set up.
