Programme

BADS Annual Conference 2025

BADS Conference 2025 will be held on 19th - 20th June 2025 at University Place, Manchester.

Thursday 19 June

09:05 to 09:25 Venous surgery techniques under local anaesthetic Bruce Campbell

09:25 to 09:45 Hand Surgery Unit, Wide Awake Local Anaesthesia No Torniquet (WALANT) techniques Nik Jagodzinski

09:45 to 09:50 Discussion

09:50 to 10:20 Remimazolam in cardiac cardioversion Martin Lees

10:20 to 10:50 Remimazolam opportunities and snags - where next? Robert Sneyd

10:50 to 11:00 Discussion

11:30 to 12:00 Local anaesthesia for ophthalmic surgery Andy Presland

11:30 to 12:00 Nursing / Allied Health Professional focus session

12:05 to 12:25 Keynote 1 Dough McWhinnie

12:25 to 12:45 Keynote 2 Ian Jackson

13:45 to 14:45 Free Paper Session 1

13:45 to 14:45 Free Paper Session 2

14:45 to 15:15 Psychological Safety in the workplace Ranjit Kirton

14:45 to 15:15 Day case EVAR Peter Holt

15:40 to 15:55 Sustainability in surgery Andy Stevenson

15:55 to 16:10 Greener Surgery Checklist Jasmin Winter-Beatty

16:10 to 16:40 Human factors in surgical safety Scarlett McNally

16:40 to 16:45 Q&A

Friday 20 June

08:45 to 09:10 Day Case Hysterectomy Jeffrey Ahmed

09:10 to 09:35 Day Case Prostatectomy Jim Wilson

09:35 to 10:00 Day Case Abdominal Wall Surgery Altaf Awan

10:00 to 11:00 Regional anaesthesia Jennifer Ferry, James Bowness

10:00 to 10:30 Safety in theatres - Smoke Plume

10:30 to 11:00 Complex Surgery - Anterior cervical discectomy as daycase Andy Bacon

13:15 to 14:15 High Intensity Theatre (HIT) Lists Imran Ahmed, Charlotte Cook, Husam Ebeid, James Oakley , Eva Jacovou

14:45 to 15:15 Update On BADS Grants Thomas Stringfellow, Rosie Stanton, Jack Kennedy

08:15 to 09:00: Registration, Coffee, Exhibition And Poster Viewing Dave Bunting

09:00 to 09:05: Theatre A President's Welcome Dave Bunting

09:05 to 09:50: Theatre A Plenary 1 - Local anaesthetic techniques Dave Bunting

09:50 to 11:00: Theatre A Plenary 2 - Safe sedation Dave Bunting

11:00 to 11:30: Coffee, Exhibition and Posters

11:30 to 12:00: Parallel Session 1 Pallavi Dasannacharya

12:00 to 12:45: Theatre A Keynote Speakers Dave Bunting

12:45 to 13:45: Lunch, Exhibition and Posters

13:45 to 14:45: Parallel Free Paper Session

14:45 to 15:15: Parallel Session 2

15:15 to 15:40: Coffee, Exhibition and Poster Viewing

15:40 to 16:40: Theatre A Plenary 3 - Sustainability / Safety in Day Surgery

16:40 to 17:00: BADS AGM Dave Bunting

17:00 to 18:30: Drinks reception

08:15 to 08:45: Registration, Coffee, Exhibition And Poster Viewing

08:45 to 10:00: Theatre A Plenary 4 - Robotic Day Surgery Pallavi Dasannacharya, David Bunting

10:00 to 11:00: Parallel Session 3 Pallavi Dasannacharya

10:45 to 11:15: Coffee, Exhibition and Poster Viewing

11:15 to 12:15: Theatre A Prize Papers

12:15 to 13:15: Lunch, Exhibition and Poster Viewing

13:15 to 14:15: Theatre A Plenary 4 - High Intensity Theatre (HIT) Lists Dave Bunting, Charlotte Taylor

14:15 to 14:45: Theatre A Presentation of Prizes & Presidential Handover Dave Bunting

14:45 to 15:15: Theatre A Update On BADS Grants Rachel Tibble

15:15 to 15:30: Theatre A President's Closing Remarks Karen Harries

15:30 to 15:30: Conference Close