Past President David Sanders is a consultant upper GI surgeon and clinical lead for Upper GI Surgery and the Abdominal Wall service at North Devon Hospital in Barnstaple. He completed specialty laparoscopic upper GI training in the South West of England and a trauma fellowship in South Africa. His doctorate thesis was on the influence
President Stella Smith is a Consultant General and Colorectal Surgeon in Manchester with a trauma background. She has a dedicated interest in abdominal wall reconstruction (AWR). During her post- CCT fellowship in Trauma in Nottingham, she developed decision-making and technical skills in AWR. Whilst undertaking a Trauma Fellowship in Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, she
18th to 21st October 2022, Manchester The board of the British hernia society would like to highly recommend that you set aside the dates 18th to 21st October 2022, so that you can register and attend the European Hernia Society Congress in Manchester. The dates have now changed to accommodate the change in dates of the
THE BRITISH HERNIA SOCIETY SUBCOMMITTEES Registry AWR Education&Training Patient & Public Liaison Trainee Scientific Hamburger Toggle Menu BHS Registry subcommittee The BHS Registry sub-committee (RSC) was formed in 2021 as an operational group to develop the new BHS Registry. This exciting, ground-breaking project for the British Hernia Society will provide large-scale, real-world data on patient-centred
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CAWR Pathway optimisation to reduce the NHS financial burden Getting it right first time (GIRFT) is a national program designed to improve the quality of care within the NHS by reducing unwarranted variation. Recent focus has highlighted the economic burden of incisional hernias (IH) leading to the more complex abdominal wall repair (CAWR). The NHS
We have now concluded our 8 episodes Hernia Masterclass Webinar series. This was brought to you by BHS in partnership with The RCSEd Surgical Specialty Board (SSB) in General Surgery.This series was well attended with over 400 participants from all over the world for each webinar. The feedback we have received are mostly encouraging. We
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BHS Surgical Trainee Representative Applications are welcomed from trainee surgeons in the U.K to join the BHS board as the trainee rep. for a period of two years or until their Consultant appointment if this should fall within the two-year period. The trainee will represent the views of trainee surgeons in the UK and play
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British Hernia Society The British Hernia Society was created in 2003 by a group of surgeons with an interest in hernia surgery. At that time our main objective was to re-establish British hernia surgery in the forefront of this specialty through a programme of innovative meetings and workshops in collaboration with industry. With the exponential
