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URGENT - Petition for EWTD |
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Written by Julie Cornish
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Monday, 06 April 2009 20:23 |
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Dear Dukes Club members, ASiT have proposed a petition to Gordon Brown to allow surgeons to work more than 48 hours. If you are concerned about this issue please take the time to put your name on the list. http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/EWTD-Surgery/ The petition states: From August 2009, it will become illegal for NHS Surgeons to work more than 48 hours per week. As a result, continuity of care and access to training opportunities for surgeons in training will be severely affected with potentially disastrous outcomes for quality of care and patient safety. Stark warnings about this impending crisis have been issued by the Surgical Royal Colleges, the surgical trainee bodies and by elected patient representatives, with evidence that care is already being compromised. The profession is best placed to advise on optimising patient safety and we would urge the Prime Minister to consider urgent changes to UK legislation, to allow the modest increase in working hours, to a maximum of 65 hours per week, which is required to maintain a first rate standard of care for NHS patients. We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to listen to the voice of the surgical profession and elected patient groups in allowing surgeons the flexibility to work hours in excess of the European Working Time Directive http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/EWTD-Surgery/ Thank you for your support |
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The Nick Taffendir Travelling Fellowship Report |
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Written by Julie Cornish
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Monday, 30 March 2009 20:32 |
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Report from Travelling Fellows for 2009 Nick Taffinder was a Consultant Colorectal Surgeon with a love of the mountains who died at a tragically young age. In 2009 the first two travelling fellowships were awarded to UK colorectal trainees in his name with an awarded sum of £750 that allowed attendance to the annual, 10th Alpine Colorectal meeting, held in Verbier, Switzerland. The meeting lasts for 3 days and has early morning and late afternoon sessions with ample opportunity to ski or enjoy the scenery in between. The sessions consist of updates in several developing or controversial areas of colorectal surgery and are presented by eminent surgeons in that area. This year, sessions included ‘Extending the indications for laparoscopic colorectal surgery’and ‘Liver metastases’, whilst the seventh Marc-Claude Marti lecture was given by Dr R Maddoff from Minneapolis and was entitled ‘What in the world shall we do about AIN?’ . We were expected to present an interesting case for discussion at one of the sessions with interaction with a distinguished audience. The meeting has an informal feel to it but the academic content is of extremely high quality and we found the lectures invaluable for our training with the intercollegiate exam approaching. In summary the fellowships are an excellent opportunity for colorectal trainees to attend this highly-regarded meeting with an international audience, in beautiful and relaxing surroundings. We strongly recommend it to colorectal trainees in future years and we are grateful to Professor Mortensen and Covidien for allowing us this fantastic opportunity. Further information can be obtained from www.alpinecolorectal.org and the fellowship application details appeared on the Dukes club website www.thedukesclub.org.uk Ben Griffiths, Salford Bruce Levy, Guildford |
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British Association of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition |
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Written by Chris Macklin
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Sunday, 16 November 2008 21:21 |
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Two study days have been organised by BAPEN in June and October. The first will be on June 18th at St Bart's Hospital and includes a discussion of sclerosing peritonitis. The October meeting will be held on the 12th at the Cardiff International Arena and deals mainly with functional gut problems which may be of particular interest to senior trainees. Further details will be posted on the society website, www.bapen.org.uk. |
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Last Updated on Thursday, 16 April 2009 23:52 |
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Written by Mr Youssef
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Monday, 10 November 2008 21:46 |
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To all Dukes Club Members The idea of developing national education networks, aimed at delivering the coloproctology knowledge part of the syllabus to trainees nationwide, has been of interest to the ACPGBI Education and Training Committee. I am keen to have trainees' views on this. I have prepared a discussion document outlining the proposed details of the education network, which can be downloaded below - please e-mail your views to me at
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Thanks Haney Youssef download here |
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Last Updated on Friday, 19 December 2008 21:10 |
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