British Association of Day Surgery - BADS

14/04/2026

Is your day surgery unit listed in the BADS UK Directory of Day Surgery Units?
Access to this is a BADS member-only benefit providing networking opportunities for sharing experience and good practice. The directory includes details of units by region with clinical and nursing lead contacts for each.
We need your help to ensure that this directory is up to date. Please assist us by checking to see that your unit is listed and that the contact details we have are correct. We will update the website accordingly. Thank you for contributing to this invaluable resource.

https://bads.co.uk/for-members/uk-day-surgery-units/

13/04/2026

Meet BADS council member Melisa Albay, Operating Department Practitioner (ODP) at King's College Hospital's active Day Surgery unit with responsibilities for anaesthetics, scrubs, and recovery. She has a passion for day surgery and actively contributes to advancing and promoting day surgery practices in the UK.

https://bads.co.uk/about/bads-council/current-members/melisa-albay/

10/04/2026

The British Association of Day Surgery Annual Conference: June 4th-5th 2026
Join us at The Royal Society of Medicine, Wimpole Street, London

We have an interesting and varied programme, with the following sessions on the afternoon of day 1:

‘Day Surgery and the Digital Age’,which includes the emerging technology of ambient voice tech
Rachel Tibble, University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust
Ross Coomber, St Georges NHS Foundation Trust
Jennifer Treglohan, British Hernia Society.

Parallel workshops:
‘Workplace behaviours and the day surgery team’
Ranjit Kirton – The Behaviour Garage Ltd
and
‘Procedure Rooms’
Kevin Hayes, St Georges NHS Foundation Trust.

We will also have our exhibition, poster viewing and free paper sessions.

View full programme:
https://bads.co.uk/conference/programme/

Register to attend (early bird rate ends 26th April)
https://bads.co.uk/conference/register/

09/04/2026

Day Case Breast Surgery 2nd Edition

The aim of this handbook is to provide practical and evidence-based advice to support development of a day case service and where an overnight pathway is in place, stimulate consideration of why these cannot be managed on a day case basis.
It covers the management of both oncoplastic and non-oncoplastic procedures at all stages of the patient pathway and shows how clinical outcome and patient experience audit can be incorporated into practice.

Free to BADS members

Authors: J Marsden, K Russon, M Stocker, MJ Hwang

https://bads.co.uk/for-members/bads-handbooks/day-case-breast-surgery/

08/04/2026

Meet BADS council member, Carlos Miras-Sampedro, Matron for Day Surgery at Crawley Hospital (Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust). His interests include and , and digital solutions for healthcare.

https://bads.co.uk/about/bads-council/current-members/mr-carlos-miras-sampedro/

07/04/2026

Construction started on £20m surgical hub for the South West

Work has now begun laying the foundations for a new day surgery facility being built on the Heavitree Hospital site at the Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. The build will include admission areas, operating theatres, recovery areas and discharge facilities.

Read the full story:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp8d2xnjyvxo

Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust says it is part of a wider £80m project.

06/04/2026

Competencies for the Day Surgery Team 2nd Edition

Do you need support developing or updating competency documents for your day surgery team?
If so, check out the BADS and the AfPP competency recommendations for day surgery, which has recently been updated and is available free, via the BADS and AfPP websites.
The main document sets out core competencies essential for adult day surgery from the point of admission to discharge on the same day. This is supplemented with recommendations for challenging situations arising in the day-case surgery setting and additional knowledge and skills required for adult trained nurses or allied health professionals if paediatric day-case surgery is undertaken.
These competencies are relevant for staff new to, or after a long absence from day surgery and acknowledge some members of the day surgery team may include non-registered practitioners.

https://bads.co.uk/for-members/core-competencies/

03/04/2026

Meet BADS Council member Gabriele Galatà, Consultant in Endocrine and General Surgery in the NHS at King's College Hospital.

In addition to general and laparoscopic surgery, he has specialist interests in thyroid, parathyroid and adrenal surgeries and complex and genetic endocrine diseases.

https://bads.co.uk/about/bads-council/current-members/gabriele-galata/

02/04/2026

Day Case Knee Arthroplasty: A joint BADS/HCUK Virtual Conference. 12th May 2026

The British Association of Day Surgery and Healthcare Conferences UK are pleased to announce this virtual conference focusing on Day Case Knee Arthroplasty.

Join us to see how units across the UK have been leading the journey to successful Day case arthroplasty. It has been proven to be safe, achievable and has been replicated across several trusts. Learn how to embark on your day case journey and also see how
Elective hubs can increase day case numbers further. You will also see how digital technology can aid this and move us towards a more virtual way of working.

Increasing the delivery of day case total joints across the NHS is achievable and it is important to share learning so that day case arthroplasty becomes the normal in units across the UK.

This conference will enable you to:
• Network with colleagues who are working to improve day surgery orthopaedic services
• Learn from outstanding practice in day surgery arthroplasty
• Identify key strategies for implementation of a day surgery joint replacement service
• Ensure you are up to date with the latest national practice

Supports CPD professional development and acts as revalidation evidence. This course provides 5 Hrs training for CPD subject to peer group approval for revalidation purposes

Chair & Speakers include:
• Mr Graham Walsh - Knee Surgeon & Medical Director, Health Education Yorkshire and Humber
• Karen Harries - Lead Nurse, Pre-operative Assessment, Guys & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust; BADS President
• Dr Claire Blandford - Consultant Anaesthetist,Torbay & South Devon NHS Foundation Trust; Lead author for GIRFT Arthroplasty Best Practice Document 2023
• Philip Insaidoo - Senior Analytical Lead, Clinical Analysis & Reducing Variation, NHS England
• Emma McCone - GIRFT National Lead for Preoperative Assessment, Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) programme NHS England
• Claire Kennedy - Elective co-ordinator, Major Revision Knee Centre, Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust
• Kayleigh Wright - Team Leader/Clinical Specialist – Inpatient Orthopaedics, The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust
• Dr Nisha Bhuskute - Consultant Anaesthetist, Calderdale & Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust
• Dr Mohamed Mostafa - Consultant Anaesthetist, Lead of Trauma and Regional Anaesthesia, North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust; General Secretary, African Society of Regional Anaesthesia
• Dr Mary Stocker - Consultant Anaesthetist, Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust; Clinical Lead, South West Ambulatory Orthopaedic Centre; Past-President, BADS
• Olivia Haynes - Lead Physiotherapist, South West Ambulatory Orthopaedic Centre

More information & booking:

https://bads.co.uk/events/2026/day-case-knee-arthroplasty-a-joint-bads-hcuk-virtual-conference-12th-may-2026/

Healthcare Conferences UK Ltd

31/03/2026

British Association of Day Surgery Annual Conference: June 4th – 5th 2026
Join us at The Royal Society of Medicine, Wimpole Street, London.
We have an interesting and varied programme, starting with the following on the morning of day 1:

‘Day Case Urology’
Gidon Ellis, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
Omer Onur Cakir, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Sanjith Gnanappiragasam, Kings College Hospital NHS Trust

‘Drive for 85 :The Challenge of Change’
Emma Johnson, Kings College Hospital NHS Trust

There will be parallel workshops:
‘Day discharge with drains in situ’
Aimee Mayes, Guy's and St Thomas'​ NHS Foundation Trust
Elina Shaari, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
and
‘The frail patient’
Dr. Fatima Eltinay, Cumberland Infirmary.

We will hear from keynote speakers:
Prof. Stella Vig, Croydon Health Services NHS Trust - ‘Surgical hubs’ with a local and national perspective
Emma McCone, The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - ‘Early pre-op screening’

View full programme:
https://bads.co.uk/conference/programme/

Register to attend (early bird rate ends 26th April)
https://bads.co.uk/conference/register/

30/03/2026

How do your hospital’s day surgery rates compare with others?
Does your day surgery performance place you in the top 5% of performing trusts or are patients being admitted for inpatient surgery when they could be managed safely as a day case?
If you maximise your hospital’s day case rates, what bed and cost saving efficiencies can be released for diversion into other NHS services?

You can find this information in the BADS Directory of Procedures National Dataset (DOP). This ‘go-to’ publication recommends day case rates for over 300 surgical procedures, arranged by speciality and defined by OPCS codes. The metrics have recently been updated to expand information about the impact of maximising day surgery performance on potential national bed and cost savings for the 300 plus procedures listed in the Directory. The latest update now includes ‘excess’ bed days savings, which assume all listed BADS procedures are treated within the BADS targets, and a new measure ‘operational bed day opportunity’ that shows savings based on existing bed NHS bed capacity.
Can you justify your current inpatient surgery rates?

Free to BADS members

https://bads.co.uk/for-members/bads-directory-of-procedures-national-dataset/

28/03/2026

Abstract submission extended to 3rd April !
https://bads.co.uk/conference/abstracts/