Enhanced recovery plans include pre-surgery education, medical optimisation, exercises to prepare the body, reducing fasting time, warming the body before surgery, giving antibiotics to prevent infection, using standard anaesthetic methods, keeping normal blood pressure and temperature, encouraging patients to get moving soon after surgery, and promoting early eating and drinking. 

All these have been proven to speed up recovery, lower the risk of complications after surgery, and reduce the time spent in hospital.

This would then be carried out by a team of professionals, which included surgeons, anaesthetists, nurses, theatre staff, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, pharmacists, and dietitians. It requires an active involvement of a patient and is customized to his needs.