News: Announcements

Suggestions for new topic(s)/condition(s) for future BAPS-CASS studies are currently being sought, with a closing date of 29th Novembe

Nominations can now be made to BAPS for support for the 2013 round

Photos taken by John Carr (the photographer at the RCSEng) at the BAPS 2013 Congress

Nominations are now required for a vacancy on the Executive Committee of BAPS for the period 2013-2016

The BAPS Experimental Research Club meeting this year will be on the topic of Inflammatory Bowel Disease

The Certificate of Fitness for Honorary Practice has now been launched.

For the first time in nearly 20 years, we will be having a Nurses' session at BAPS Annual Congress! The meeting is being sponsored by Dansac and Hollister, and will allow 65 nurses to come together for a day of sessions on topics including: Paediatric Stoma Care, Hirschsprung's Disease, Anorectal Malformations, Cloaca, Short bowel Syndrome, and surgical interventions. Speakers will include members of the Paediatric Stoma Nurse Group and the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons. Places are strictly limited.

Following a postal vote of Council Members the new President Elect (who will be validated at the Summer Council Meeting) is Mr David Burge from Southampton.

Due to the generosity of Mr Hugh Greenwood, we are able to offer another Surgical Travel Fellowship.

Kokila Lakhoo has just returned from Tanzania where the Tanzanian Association of Paediatric Surgeons (TAPS) has just been created.