Melanie Moore is an Advanced Clinical Nurse Practitioner with colorectal and general surgery. An experienced nurse of 23 years plus she has worked on the wards as a health care assistant, staff nurse and surgical nurse practitioner, she is now the practitioner on a very busy surgical ward covering urology, breast, surgery, plastics and colorectal patients. With this wealth of experience, she helped develop the Enhanced Recovery Programme for colorectal/rectal surgery and bring down admission times with the team to become one of the top hospitals in the Midlands for their discharge times and safety. She has always been keen to involve herself in innovative ideas and the post op app was the icing on the cake to the very successful service they offer.