Welcome to BADS

Providing information about Day Surgery for Healthcare Professionals

What's New

BADS endorses multidisciplinary consensus statement on peri-operative management of diabetes mellitus

New Directory of Procedures metric 'operational bed day opportunity' shows savings if day cases maximised using current NHS bed capacity

BADS releases newly updated Paediatric Day Surgery handbook

A new chapter for BADS - our refreshed BADS identity

Our focus is still committed to creating a strong professional day surgery community and continuing to support members to provide high quality care with positive patient outcomes.

Refreshing our identity allows BADS:

To reach more people and grow the BADS community even further. A stronger community creates greater opportunities to share best practice.
Have greater visibility which helps make day surgery the norm, not the exception.

Join us on this journey to an even stronger day surgery community.

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