AUGIS News Summer 2016

President’s Message
Mr Ian Beckingham

It has been another busy year for at (www.augis.org/sword/).
AUGIS – following on from the DDF in
Summer 2015 we have enjoyed the Over the next year with further
investment, it will seek to incorporate
BOMSS meeting in Cardiff and the ONS (Office of National Statistics)
GBIHPBA meeting in Chesford Grange
– both sell-outs with very positive data and provide some unique and
exciting metrics such as Kaplan-Meier
feedback from attendees. In addition and VLAD plots.
Ashraf Rasheed hosted an AUGIS
Wales meeting largely based around This will increase its usefulness not
only for appraisal and revalidation but
OG topics, and Mark Taylor an AUGIS
Ireland meeting with a variety of topics by demonstrating variance in both
including the popular symposium on volume and outcomes, will promote
debate about how to reduce these
Bile duct injuries and prevention of where appropriate.
complications of Lap Choles.
In 2015 AUGIS Council published two
The next Annual Scientific Meeting
(ASM) will be held at the Leeds guidance documents - The Future of
Armories on 22-23rd of September Emergency General Surgery and Pathway
for the Management of Acute Gallstone
(www.augis.org/2016conference/) disease documents
preceded by a training day on
Wednesday 21st September (www.augis.org/augis-guidelines/). There have been several new
Both are being increasingly referenced appointments to Council this year and it
(www.augis.org/2016conference/registra and cited and appear in the recent gives me great pleasure to welcome
tion/). The program is packed with
something for everyone including talks Nuffield report on Emergency General Ashley Dennison (Leicester) as
Surgery: Challenges and Opportunities. President of GBIHPBA, Noreen
from Professor Rob Padbury (Adelaide) This year AUGIS Council have Hawkshaw (Leeds) as AHP
on the unforeseen problems of
centralisation of cancer services and produced an update of The Provision representative and Giles Toogood
reducing risks in UGI surgery; Prof Greg of UGI Services document (Leeds) as President Elect of AUGIS.
(www.augis.org/augis-guidelines/). My thanks on behalf of the society to
Falk (Sydney) on dealing with Para- First written in 1999 and last updated
Oesophageal hernias and managing their predecessors Rowan Parks and
Laryngo-Pharyngo-Reflux; UGI surgery in 2011, it provides recommendations Venetia Wynter-Blyth for their
on minimum requirements for outstanding contributions to the society.
in the Obese patient and the pros and providing optimum UGI surgical
cons of super-specialisation in bariatric And finally it has been a fantastic
surgery; and a return of Jane Blazeby’s services, and for the first time,
encompasses both benign as well as privilege to have been AUGIS
excellent Dragons’ Den. We also have malignant diseases. We have added President for the last 2 years and I
some dedicated AHP sessions including welcome Richard Hardwick who steps
nutrition in UGI cancer patients. This Outcomes Standards and Performance
Related Outcome Measures (PROMS) up to the role after the Leeds meeting.
year the registration fee includes the to serve as guidance for Units, Trusts
drinks reception and dinner and we and Commissioners in areas where
encourage Units to bring along their
UGI team trainees and AHPs and evidence is not available. Numbers
used have been derived from available
organise a Team table for dinner.
UK data (NOGCA, The HPB audit,

The SWORD tool was launched last and SWORD) and are set to be
year to provide surgeons with data on achievable rather than aspirational.
their volumes and outcomes and They are anticipated to evolve with
Mr Ian Beckingham
contextualize it in relation to their time and future iterations of the President, AUGIS
peers. The tool is currently being
document. Many of these topics will
updated and upgraded with be discussed at the ASM in Leeds and STOP PRESS... Congratulations to
we welcome feedback and comments Professor Giles Toogood for election
additional procedures and
metrics and version 2 will be in the debates at the meeting or via to the role of President Elect from
available soon online
email (nichola@augis.org)
September 2016.

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