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The objective of this paper is to design a weekly surgery schedule in an operating theatre where time blocks are reserved for surgeons rather than specialities. Both operating rooms and places in the recovery room are assumed to be multifunctional, and the objectives are to maximise the utilisation of the operating rooms, to minimise the overtime cost in the operating theatre, and to minimise the unexpected idle time between surgical cases. This weekly operating theatre planning and scheduling problem is solved in two phases. First, the planning problem is solved to give the date of surgery for each patient, allowing for the availability of operating rooms and surgeons. Then a daily scheduling problem is devised to determine the sequence of operations in each operating room in each day, taking into account the availability of recovery beds. The planning problem is described as a set-partitioning integer …