BADS is a multidisciplinary organisation, promoting excellence and enhancing education in the delivery of day surgery
Join BADS, whose purpose is to promote excellence and maximise the delivery of day surgery in the UK. Share your passion for and interest in this with our growing BADS multidisciplinary community of healthcare professionals (surgeons, anaesthetists, nurses, allied health professionals and managers).
BADS strategic objectives are to
- Attract and maintain sufficient membership to attain and sustain national influence.
- Understand what excellence in day surgery looks like and how to share it.
- Maximise its reach within the UK.
Membership Benefits Include
- BADS Newsletter emailed each month
- Discounted registration fees for the BADS Annual Conference, held every June
- Discounted registration fees for BADS/Healthcare Conferences UK one-day, virtual meetings
- Eligibility to apply for a BADS day surgery project grant
- Free online access to BADS publications
- BADS handbooks
- BADS Directory of Procedures and National Dataset
- BADS Bitesize topics
- Access to the BADS UK Day Surgery Unit Registry
- Access to the entire back catalogue of our peer-reviewed publication, the Journal of One Day Surgery (JODS)
- Notification of events hosted by the International Association of Ambulatory Surgery (IAAS)
- Bespoke guidance, support and answers to queries relating to day surgery practice