Mr Altaf Awan is a consultant surgeon with practice in benign pancreatico-biliary, bariatric and abdominal wall hernia surgery at University Hospitals of Derby and Burton. He was awarded his higher research degree (MD) from University of Nottingham. Following completion of his higher surgical training in Mid-Trent higher surgical rotation, he completed one year fellowship in Newcastle with Northumbria upper GI team of surgeons (NUGITS), where he further developed his knowledge and skills in advanced laparoscopic and weight loss surgery.
Mr Awan specialises in advanced laparoscopic and robotic GI and abdominal wall hernia surgery. His clinical areas of work include surgical management of gallstones, bile duct stones, acute and chronic pancreatitis, acid reflux, complex abdominal wall hernias and weight loss surgery including revisional cases. He has a keen interest in laparoscopic surgery for emergency cases and has helped develop innovative minimally invasive surgical techniques in the management of emergency conditions such as complex acute pancreatitis. Mr Awan operative work on laparoscopic surgery for pancreatitis, bile duct stone, and utilisation of Indocyanine Green (ICG) in emergency hernia surgery has been awarded top prizes at UK prestigious national surgical meetings.
Mr Awan was elected as Director of Education 鈥揕aparoscopic & Robotic surgery, Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland (ALSGBI) in 2021. Mr Awan is actively involved in clinical research with a number of publications in peer reviewed journals. He regularly delivers talks as an invited speaker at national and international surgical meetings. He is also a keen surgical trainer and a course director and faculty for ALSGBI Key skills in advanced laparoscopic surgery, LapPass and RCSEng Core skills in Laparoscopic surgery courses.
He is currently leading development of robotic surgery in benign upper GI/ pancreaticobiliary and complex abdominal wall hernia surgery at University Hospitals of Derby and Burton. Mr Awan is one of the first intuitive robotic proctors who is qualified to train surgeons in complex abdominal wall hernia surgery. He also proctors for bariatric surgery and is a trainer for Intuitive robotic courses (TR200 & TR300) in UK and Europe.
With over 21 years of diverse experience in nursing, I have been fortunate to travel the world, influence evidence-based practice, and drive meaningful change in patient care. My career began in Birmingham, where I worked across surgical wards and high-dependency units. Seeking to expand my impact, I dedicated a decade to nursing research, focusing on enhanced recovery.
My passion for improving patient outcomes led me to pursue a master鈥檚 degree, during which I conducted a randomized controlled trial investigating the effectiveness of a nutritional intervention for patients undergoing elective major lung surgery. This landmark study yielded positive results and was published in the British Medical Journal in June 2022. To date, I have authored over 20 peer-reviewed publications and contributed more than 30 abstracts to the scientific community.
During the first wave of COVID-19, I worked in the COVID Intensive Therapy Unit (ITU) an incredibly challenging experience that prompted me to re-evaluate my career path. In September 2020, I transitioned to Basingstoke, where I was appointed Clinical Matron for the Diagnostic Treatment Centre (DTC), Pre-Assessment, and Andover Day Surgery Unit.
Building on my leadership journey, I took on the role of Lead Nurse for Theatres, Treatment Centres, and Pre-Assessment across Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in November 2022. My key objectives include strengthening leadership, fostering staff engagement and morale, and standardising best practices across 24 theatres spanning three hospital sites. By optimising resources and aligning operational strategies, I am committed to enhancing patient care and driving excellence in surgical services.
Co-Chair Sustainability in Surgery, RCS Eng
Day Surgery Unit Manager Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (Bedford site)
I came to Theatres Recovery at Bedford Hospital in 1985 shortly after qualifying as a Registered Nurse, and worked there for 30 years (25 of which were as the Recovery Sister). I have always had an interest in Day Surgery right from the outset when it was in its infancy here. I was instrumental in setting up both the Day Surgery and Oral & Maxillofacial Recovery Units here from scratch.
In 2015, I was offered 3-month secondment to manage the Trust鈥檚 Day Surgery Unit. Three months has become 9 years - and counting! With my team, I have been able to transform the Unit - bringing in numerous new skills, increasing capacity and taking it forward to also encompass our longer stay elective admissions area. Within this, we care for patients from all specialities during their hospital stay in tandem with our day surgery patients.
I still have the same great passion and enthusiasm for day surgery as I did when I was first introduced to it all those years ago. I have a huge interest in student learning and endeavour to make our unit a great learning environment for all of the students and learners who come to join our team.
From 2013-2018 I was privileged to be a Trustee with the Association for Perioperative Practice (AfPP). This was a very enlightening, invaluable experience for me both personally and professionally.
Outside of work I can frequently be found on a racecourse 鈥� predominantly Newmarket or Cheltenham. I even have a little share in a few horses which adds to the interest - especially when they win! I enjoy relaxing on a cruise or going on long haul holidays with my husband David and also like a quiet night in with the cat 鈥� especially after a hard, tiring day at work.
Professor Bruce Campbell was appointed consultant vascular surgeon to the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital in 1986. Since 2016 he has been an honorary consultant there and has a venous practice at Exeter Medical. He is an honorary professor at the University of Exeter Medical School.
He has published and spoken widely on venous and arterial disease, including co-authorship of major randomised trials in venous disease (REACTIV - Br J Surg 2006; VULCAN 鈥� Br J Surg 2009: CLASS 鈥� N Engl J Med 2014, 2019). Recent BMJ Editorial 鈥淪ilent crisis of venous care in UK鈥� 鈥� January 2024. He is currently on committees overseeing a range of National Institute of Health Research trials on venous disease.
He is now President of Venous Forum of the Royal Society of Medicine, which is the main organisation for all those in the UK with special interest in venous disease. He spent several years on the Council of the Vascular Society of Great Britain and Ireland; he was its Honorary Secretary 1998-2002; and inaugural Chair of its Professional Standards Committee (2002-6). He established and edited the Technical Section of the Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons 2001-24.
Bruce Campbell chaired the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) Advisory Committees on Interventional procedures 2002-15 and on Medical Technologies 2009-15. He was a Non-Executive Director of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) 2015-21.
With a background including a 4-year University degree in Translation and Interpreting and a 4-year University Degree in Nursing, Carlos became Crawley Day Surgery Unit manager in 2019. During this time, Carlos led the standardisation of the nursing discharge information and nursing guidelines for the unit and supported the implementation of patient electronic records (as a Subject Matter Expert) for the Trust. As the Day Surgery Unit manager, he has also supported the implementation of the upper-limb trauma list, and increased the number of procedures that can be performed in the unit.
With around 60 members of staff, the unit comprises an admission lounge, four operating rooms, a first-stage recovery with seven spaces, and a second-stage recovery with twenty trolleys, which makes it a perfect model for a Day Surgery unit.
Carlos has been a member of BADS since 2019 and he is looking forward to working as a Council member now, as he firmly believes Day Surgery unit is the future.
Out of work, he enjoys a good book or film, and tailoring!
Chris is a Consultant Anaesthetist based at the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He leads on a number of initiatives and innovations in the trust focussed on efficiency, productivity and education. He is also the Director (&creator) of Anaesthesia Learning in the NE (A-liNE.org.uk) - a regional education organisation delivering education to regional, national and international delegates.
Consultant Anaesthetist
Consultant Upper gastrointestinal, General and Emergency surgeon
Qualified from Aberdeen in 1981 and was appointed as Consultant Anaesthetist in York in 1989. In 1991 he became responsible for the development of Day Surgery and spent several years as Clinical Director for Anaesthesia, ICU and Theatres.
Elected to the Council of the British Association of Day Surgery and served as Treasurer, Editor of the Journal and President. On joining the General Assembly of the International Association for Ambulatory Surgery he redeveloped the website www.theiaas.net and helped establish the journal Ambulatory Surgery as a free access online resource www.ambulatorysurgery.org. He was President of the IAAS from 2013-2015.
Between 2000 鈥� 2009 he worked nationally with the NHS Modernisation Agency on day surgery, the National 18 Week Implementation Team and Chaired the Planned Care Pathway Group for NHS Yorkshire and the Humber.
He became Clinical Safety Officer for York Teaching Hospital NHSFT in 2011. The role was expanded to that of a fulltime Chief Clinical Information Officer in 2012. During this time, he also planned the redevelopment of a peripheral hospital as an elective Orthopaedic Centre. Dr Jackson allegedly retired but continues to provide the CSO role for the Trust and several other health IT firms.
Emeritus Professor
Faculty of Health
Qualifications: MD MA MB BChir FRCA SFHEA DL PhD Professor Sneyd was brought up in Cornwall and one of his first jobs (1975) was as a Nursing Auxiliary in Devonport Hospital, Plymouth - now long since demolished! He graduated from Cambridge University in 1981 and continued his medical training in London. Halfway through he undertook a research degree and then spent a period working full time in the pharmaceutical industry before returning to work in the NHS. After completing his UK anaesthetic training, he worked at the University of Michigan Medical School at Ann Arbor, USA. In 1993, he returned to the South West as a Consultant Anaesthetist and after a few years moved to the University as Reader in Anaesthesia and then Professor. In 1998 he took over the running of the Plymouth Postgraduate Medical School, first as Acting Dean and then as Dean. He led the Plymouth team in the successful bid for a new Peninsula Medical School and served as Vice-Dean of the Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry. The first medical graduates have been working as NHS doctors since 1st August 2007 and the dental graduates have been doing so since 2011. He worked as a Consultant Anaesthetist at Derriford Hospital, mostly in neuro-anaesthesia and is very familiar with the interface between universities and the NHS. Until retiring in late 2018 he served as Executive Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry in Plymouth, leading schools of medicine, dentistry and biomedical science. In anaesthesia he has engaged nationally through the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland as Council Member and Vice-President (2006-2011), the Royal College of Anaesthetists, UK as Council Member and Vice-President (2008-2018) and internationally with the European Society of Anaesthesiology, ESA as Council member and Director (2006-2012). For the NHS he has served on the Board of University Hospitals Plymouth (2013-2018), Peninsula Dental Social Enterprise (2013-2018) and Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (2017-2019). Also Chair of the Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre (2019-2020). In each case he has tried to represent the interests of patients and clinicians with an emphasis on sound strategy and common sense. Professor Sneyd's research interests focus on drugs, pharmacology and pharmacokinetics with related projects based on signal processing. Having worked in the pharmaceutical industry he has a special interest in drug development, especially in intravenous anaesthesia. He led the 2013 UK national sedation review for the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges. He is a regular scientific reviewer, mostly for the British Journal of Anaesthesia but also for Anesthesiology, Anaesthesia, Anesthesia and Analgesia, the European Journal of Anaesthesiology and various other journals. As Emeritus Professor he remains research active and works internationally to support the development of new medicines.
Employment
Emeritus Professor
050 Emeritus Professor
Faculty of Health
University of Plymouth
United Kingdom
1 Aug 2018 鈫� present
Dean
012 Dean
University of Plymouth
Devon, United Kingdom
1 Jun 2012 鈫� 31 Jul 2018
Mr Kennedy is a Specialist Registrar in General Surgery (NIMDTA) and is an 鈥楢DEPT鈥� Clinical Leadership Fellow for the year 2024-25. His fellowship project is based in the Regional Day Procedure Centre (DPC) based in Lagan Valley Hospital, which is the first regional centre for day surgery in Northern Ireland. The project involves leading quality improvement work under the themes of productivity, efficiency and education, with the overarching aim of 鈥榮triving for excellence鈥�. This includes identifying and addressing areas of educational need for all members of the perioperative multi-disciplinary team.
Sustainability Champion, Royal College Surgeons of Edinburgh
Jeffrey Ahmed is a consultant gynaecologist and service director at Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, London. He specialises in complex benign minimally invasive gynaecology and has a special interest in OR efficiency and digital technology. He proctors worldwide in robotic surgery and was clinical lead for the UK elective surgery digital programme being piloted at Chelsea, advising the government on its roll-out. His work on OR efficiency and the application of robotic surgery has been featured by the UK鈥檚 Health Secretary and Prime Minister.
Dr Ferry is a consultant anaesthetist working in South Wales. Her clinical interest areas include regional anaesthesia and acute pain. She is an elected member of the board of Regional Anaesthesia UK, where she is lead for EDI.
Consultant Urological Surgeon
Karen is an Australian trained Registered Nurse who has been in the UK since 1995. She is currently Lead Nurse for Day Surgery and Pre-operative Assessment at King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust based at Denmark Hill - a role she has held for 7.5 years as well as being the nursing lead for the Southeast London POA Network. Karen has worked in a range of day surgery/23-hour, pre-operative assessment and theatre settings for the past 30 years and is passionate about educating and empowering day surgery nurses to be knowledgeable and expert in their extended role.
Karen is currently President Elect for BADS.
I practice as a full time NHS and private Consultant in Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery with a subspecialist interest in complex upper limb injuries and acquired conditions of the hand, wrist and elbow. I currently practice in Barnstaple in the NHS and privately.
My orthopaedic training was based mainly in South West England, Birmingham and Peterborough. I completed an Advanced Training Post in Oxford as an Orthoplastics Interface fellow when I was awarded the Vivien Lees Gold Medal for the highest mark in the UK Orthoplastics Hand Diploma. I was also awarded the Bruce Bailey travelling fellowship prize to India for advanced hand, plastics and microsurgical training. A third award, the Ronald Raven Barber鈥檚 Award, sent me to Canada to learn Wide Awake Hand Surgery techniques from the president of the American Hand Surgery Society, Prof Don Lalonde.
I offer advice and treatments for acute and chronic conditions of the hand and wrist, and some elbow conditions. The majority of the procedures I offer are performed as a day case either under local, regional or general anaesthesia.
I enjoy training junior doctors and surgeons, other hand surgeons and hand therapists. I was a regular reviewer for the Journal of Hand Surgery, am well published myself and have presented at numerous international, national and regional conferences. I am active within the British Society for Surgery of the Hand and have worked with their overseas committee delivering hand surgery missions to several LMICs. I also helped write the national guidelines for what hand surgery is safe to perform outside an operating theatre in 2022.
Consultant Vascular Surgeon
Ranjit Kirton, MSc, MBPsS
The Behaviour Garage Ltd is on a mission to eradicate psychological harm by behaviour at work, by altering the thinking and behaviour of humanity, to reprogramme us all to deliver and accept safe behaviours.
I am consultant breast surgeon with a strong interest in breast conserving surgery, day case work and oncoplastic work in the older population. I have previously presented qualitative PROMS on day case work and have recently accompanied my team to Truro to learn about awake breast cancer surgery.
Ruheana is a qualified adult Nurse graduating from Kings College London in 2011. Ruheana currently holds a Matron position at Guys and St Thomas鈥檚 Foundation Trust within the Theatres, Anaesthesia and Perioperative directorate. Ruheana has specialist interest in day surgery, AI, leadership, career coaching and has completed a post graduate certificate in the Essential Management and Leadership Skills at Harvard University. Ruheana is alumni of the prestigious Florence Nightingale Foundation and has completed an MBA in Healthcare Management at Anglia Ruskin University. Ruheana is passionate about tackling health inequalities and strives to support day case surgery as a means to deliver an efficient, sustainable and equitable health service.
Professor Scarlett McNally BSc MB BChir FRCS(Tr&Orth) MA MBA FAcadMEd HonMFPH MRSPH
Orthopaedic surgeon and Deputy Director of the Centre for Perioperative Care www.cpoc.org.uk
Professor Scarlett McNally is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon in Eastbourne (since 2002), Deputy Director of the Centre for Perioperative Care (find lovely FREE resources at www.cpoc.org.uk), Honorary Clinical Professor at Brighton and Sussex Medical School, President of the Medical Women鈥檚 Federation (2023-May 2025) and previously an elected Council member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (2011-2021). She has an MA in Clinical Education and an MBA in health service management. BMJ columnist 鈥� all FREE at www.bmj.com/search/advanced/mcnally
Perioperative care = patient preparation + shared decision-making + team-working + pathways. This can halve complications. She led for CPOC on the new National Safety Standards for Invasive Procedures (NatSSIPs).
Frequent speaker and regular writer - on careers, diversity, bullying, sustainability, perioperative care, pathways, myeloma, exercise, active travel, leadership and how to fix the NHS. She was lead author for the Academy鈥檚 Exercise the miracle cure. Publications at www.scarlettmcnally.co.uk and Twitter @scarlettmcnally. Mother of 4 adults, had stem cell transplant, 4th Dan Karate black belt and 3 electric-cycles.
Dr. Senthil K Vijayan is a Consultant Anaesthetist at Moorfields Eye Hospital, London. He is highly passionate about improving Ophthalmic anaesthesia across the world through global networking. He has lot of interest in promoting day case surgery as more than 95% patients are day case in his centre. He is a big proponent of collaborative learning where specialities learn from each other to improve patient care in NHS.
His other interests include Medical Leadership and Teaching. He is the Director of Consultant Interview course at Moorfields. He teaches regularly on the MSc programme at UCL Institute of Ophthalmology. He is a big advocate of Patient Safety and teaches on the role of Human Factors in theatre environment with a huge emphasis on communication within and between teams. He loves cooking and his talk 鈥淐urry on鈥� is quite famous!
GIRFT Research Fellow, Speciality Registrar Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery