2024 Conference Programme

This session is for everyone keen to improve the future. Despite women being in the majority at medical school for 40 years, there are still low proportions of women in surgery. Recent reports show be ...

With the growth of extended and advanced practice roles in the perioperative environment it is important to ensure that rota design and training opportunities are carefully planned and coordinated to ...

Overview of evolution of genomic testing technology and practices in the UK and internationally, and how this impacts current surgical practice.

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With the growth of extended and advanced practice roles in the perioperative environment it is important to ensure that rota design and training opportunities are carefully planned and coordinated to ...

Surgical trainees who use ionising radiation are worried about the associated healthcare risks and would like to know how to mitigate these risks.

Mr Mark Henley is the first elected president of the Confederation of British Surgery (CBS) and is actively involved in advocating for the professional and employment interests of surgical teams acros ...

30-40 children are waiting on the heart alone transplant list in the UK at any one time, many as long term inpatients on mechanical devices. Mortality is 25%. Concurrently there are child donors across the UK and Europe in which the hearts are not able to be safely recovered. Each year, a number of DBD child donor hearts are unable to be retrieved safely due to the prolonged ischemic time >4 hours and subsequent dysfunction. We describe here our successful experience of utilising HOPE is a 13kg donor to allow 6 hours on the road to the recipient. DCD heart transplant is gaining momentum across the word with the use of normothermic perfusion. This technology has never been suitable for donors <50kg which effectively excludes all child DCD donors from donating their heart. The application of HOPE to this population will permit DCD heart recovery for donors <50kg down to even small infants for the first time with significant implications for donors and recipients and their families.

The climate and ecological crisis is rapidly unfolding across the Earth with devastating consequences. As healthcare professionals we are have to deal with the outcomes from this, but we are also responsible for almost 5% CO2e, and significant resources use, notably single-use items. As surgeons we need to find more sustainable ways of delivering care, and focus on those interventions that are of high quality in terms of patient outcome.

Col Tai will develop this theme through review of contemporary and historical narratives, distilling relevant lessons for academic military surgeons and innovators responsible for delivering better outcomes on the battlefield.

Replicating a fully working, state-of-the-art operating theatre, this theatre displays some of the UK’s best surgeons performing both live and simulated surgery. The theatre is supported by leading su ...