Tim Rowlands

It was a pleasure to review the posters at this years annual scientific meeting in Southport. Although less in number than previous years, they covered a wide variety of topics relevant to daycase practice with many novel approaches to aspects of care and quality. As usual the standard of the posters was high and exceptional in presentation. We recognise the hard work for all concerned that goes into converting an abstract into an interesting and meaningful presentation. Certificates are awarded to those posters where the judges felt the work was particularly outstanding.

The judges this year were Theresa Hinde (Anaesthetist), Fiona Hindle (Nursing and Management) and myself (Surgeon). We would like to thank everyone who submitted abstracts and exhibited posters this year. I would particularly encourage you to consider expanding your work as seen in the posters and submitting for consideration for publication in the Journal of One Day Surgery as soon as possible.

Gold awards

P12 Reaudit of Day Case ACL Reconstruction at RJAH NHS Foundation Trust

P Craig, A Jaiswal, P Gallacher, R Longfellow

RJAH NHS Foundation Trust, Oswestry Shropshire, UK

P16 Mired in Inertia – A Drive to Increase Day Case Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy Rates

Margaret Aslet, Steven Wasawo

York Hospital NHSFT, York, UK

Silver awards

P7 Our patients are a fire hazard! Time for a culture shift in daycase fluid starvation?

Mark Abou-Samra, Katharine Stenlake

Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton and Somerset NHS Trust, Taunton, UK

P15 Patient reported postoperative outcomes following day surgery in Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (LTHT): Guiding quality improvement using TheatrePro

Lilian Loh, Monalisa Marbaniang, Indu Sivanandan

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, UK

Bronze awards

P4 Audit of the Recording of Hba1c, Blood Pressure and BMI in Elective Surgical Referrals From Primary Care

Nazrul Islam², Thazin Wynn², Joseph Pease², Anna Lipp^1,2

¹Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Norwich, UK, ²Norwich Medical School, Norwich, UK

P5 Developing a laparoscopic cholecystectomy “recipe”

Anna Dunkley¹, Kim Russon², Helen Thornley¹

¹Sheffield Teaching Hospitals, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, UK, ²Rotherham Hospital, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, UK