Describe two features of Harold Gillies' work in plastic surgery

Question (4 marks): Describe two features of Harold Gillies' contribution to plastic surgery during the First World War.

Mark scheme (AO1 — 2 marks per feature):

• Feature 1 (up to 2 marks): Gillies established the Queen's Hospital, Sidcup (1917) (1), a dedicated facial-injury unit where over 11,000 operations were carried out on 5,000 servicemen (1).
• Feature 2 (up to 2 marks): He pioneered the tubed pedicle skin graft (1), in which a flap of skin was rolled into a tube to maintain blood supply while being moved across the face to reconstruct injuries (1).

Alternative valid features (anaesthesia development, post-war textbook Plastic Surgery of the Face 1920, multidisciplinary team) accepted. Max 4 marks.