Patient Safety in Perioperative Practice
Join us for this one-day event to discuss patient safety, drawing upon your existing knowledge and building upon clinical practice, previous errors and the use of education and quality improvement programmes used to deliver safe perioperative care.
A joint event with the Centre for Perioperative Care (CPOC), this one day meeting will discuss patient safety, including the barriers to delivering safe perioperative care and strategies on how to overcome them.
Our aims are to build upon knowledge and practice to make systems, processes and organisations safer. Through an understanding of the science of patient safety, different perspectives and approaches, coupled with collaboration, education & quality improvement programmes we hope to inspire delegates to make safety the golden thread of patient care.
The lectures will be recorded and made available to delegates post-event. This event does not require live attendance, once registered you will have access to all of the recorded material for up to six months after the live event.
Hear from one of the Clinical Leads, Dr Haresh Mulchandani, about why you should attend the Patient Safety Meeting below:
"How do you answer when someone casually asks, “So, how are things at work?”
If you were to answer honestly, you might say that many days feel like working in a pressure cooker; short‑staffed theatres, missing equipment, increasingly complex patients, and the lingering impact of austerity now reshaped into a cost‑of‑living crisis affecting everyone from patients to theatre teams. The pressures are numerous, often unpredictable, and frequently out of our control.
And yet, despite all this, we show up come rain or shine. We continue to deliver the best possible care for our patients, whatever the day brings. Ours remains an incredible and rewarding specialty - one filled with purpose, teamwork, and the security of a role that isn’t going to be taken away by AI anytime soon. We work alongside talented, committed colleagues who share the same challenges and the same pride in our work.
Join us at the 2026 online Patient Safety meeting, as we take time to talk openly about the realities we face. While we can’t solve the wider economic landscape, we can connect, share experiences, and remind one another that none of us are tackling these pressures alone. We hope you’ll leave with new insights, renewed energy, and practical ideas to take back to your own workplace which ultimately helps us all continue to improve the care we provide."
| 09:10-09:15 | Online registration opens & technical checks | |
| 09:15-09:35 | Welcome and Introduction | Prof Denny Levett, CCL & CPOC Director |
| Session 1: | ||
| 09:35-09:55 | The patient experience | Deborah Duval, Managing Editor of Lead in the Kidney Kitchen, Hampshire |
| 09:55-10:15 | Surgery as a teachable moment to improve patient safety | |
| 10:15-10:35 | The patient voice in perioperative care and CPOC | Michelle Deans, CPOC Patient Lead, London |
| 10:35-10:50 | Q&A and Discussion | |
| 10:50-11:10 | BREAK | |
| Session 2: | ||
| 11:10-11:35 | Safety in a degraded system | Prof Mary Dixon-Woods, RAND Professor of Health Services Research, University of Cambridge |
| 11:35-12:00 | Measurement of safety in perioperative care | |
| 12:00-12:15 | Q&A and Discussion | |
| 12:15-13:00 | LUNCH BREAK | |
| Session 3: | ||
| 13:00-13:25 | Learning from deaths and inquest via SALG | Dr Philip Barclay, Consultant Anaesthetist, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust |
| 13:25-13:50 | Mortality & Morbidity meetings in 2026 | Dr John Bramall, Consultant in Anaesthetics and Intensive Care, Associate Director for Patient Safety, Stevenage |
| 13:50-14:00 | Q&A and Discussion | |
| 14:00-14:20 | BREAK | |
| 14:20-14:30 | RESIDENT SAFETY PRIZE - Presentation 1 | |
| 14:30-14:40 | RESIDENT SAFETY PRIZE - Presentation 2 | |
| 14:40-14:50 | RESIDENT SAFETY PRIZE - Presentation 3 | |
| 14:50-15:00 | RESIDENT SAFETY PRIZE - Presentation 4 | |
| Session 4: | ||
| 15:00-15:25 | How AI can be used to support safety | Indresh Umaichelvam, Associate Director of Governance and AI Apprentice, London |
| 15:25-15:50 | Team based Quality Improvement | Manoj Kumar, Consultant General Surgeon, Aberdeen |
| 15:50-16:00 | Q&A and Discussion | |
| 16:00-16:05 | Resident, Specialty and SAS Safety Prize award winner | Prof Denny Levett |
| 16:05 | CLOSE | |
Pricing
ODPs and Nurses are welcome to register under the Anaesthetist in Training rate.
Pricing Terms and Conditions
Payment must be made at the time of booking unless otherwise stated. The RCoA, FICM and FPM are unable to hold places on events without payment. Credit or debit card payments must be made online via our card payment handler Stripe, or by phone. We do not accept purchase orders or raise invoices for places on our events.
Discounts are available for some membership types at the rates stated below. You must be eligible for the discount both at the time of the booking and at the time of the event itself. We may ask for proof of your member status at any point. If you are unable to prove your entitlement to the discount we may charge you the full event rate, or invite you to update your membership status accordingly. In such a situation we may withhold access to the event until your updated payment clears, or your new membership status is confirmed.
Abstract Competition
Deadline extended - New closing date for entries is 9am on Friday 30 January 2026
You are invited to submit an abstract for e-presentation at the virtual Patient Safety in Perioperative Practice meeting.
Four abstracts will be selected by a panel to present orally and have the opportunity to win a prize. The winner will also be invited to join a Podcast with the CPOC Director to discuss their abstract.
Abstracts should fall under the theme of 'Patient Safety and / or Quality Improvement'. The quality improvement project should be relevant to anaesthesia, perioperative medicine or intensive care. The shortlisted entries will be judged on their use and reporting of QI methodologies.
A panel of RCoA judges will assess all submissions shortly after the closing date. Authors will be notified week commencing 2 February 2026 if they have been invited to display their poster at the Patient Safety in Perioperative Practice conference.
Further details, including the application form are available by clicking here.
Clinical Content Leads
BM BCh PhD MRCP FRCA FFICM
Director Centre for Perioperative Care (CPOC)
Professor in Perioperative Medicine and Critical Care at the University of Southampton
Perioperative and Critical Care Theme Lead, NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Southampton
President International Prehabilitation Society
Denny is a Consultant in Perioperative and Critical Care Medicine at University Hospital Southampton and Honorary Professor at the University of Southampton. She has extensive experience in clinical leadership, research, education, and service transformation in perioperative care.
She led the development of a multidisciplinary perioperative service in Southampton, integrating digital innovation, shared decision-making, and community-based prehabilitation to improve outcomes and patient experience. Her work has been widely recognised, with digital tools such as virtual surgery schools and the MyOp prehabilitation app now featured in the NHS Digital Playbook. She has recently been appointed as the Director for the Centre of Perioperative Care (https://www.cpoc.org.uk/).
Denny is founding co-President of the International Prehabilitation Society (IPOETTS) and Co-Lead of the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre’s Perioperative and Critical Care Theme at University Hospital Southampton. She has chaired expert consensus guidance on surgery schools, shared decision-making, nutrition, and prehabilitation, and currently co-chairs the CPOC–NIHR–Macmillan implementation guidelines on prehabilitation for patients with cancer. Her research with the Fit 4 Surgery research group in Southampton has included multimodal prehabilitation trials (Wesfit; Safefit; Inspire) and risk evaluation prior to major surgery. Professor Levett’s research has focused on optimising surgical outcomes, empowering patient self-management, and improving the cost-effectiveness of care through targeted interventions.
She is passionate about education and leads the National Perioperative cardiopulmonary exercise testing course and led the development of accreditation in perioperative cardiopulmonary exercise testing. She is one of the programme leads for Evidence Based Perioperative Medicine.
Annie is a Consultant in Anaesthesia at the Royal London Hospital, along with being the Barts Health Group Safety Lead and a National Patient Safety Specialist (PSS). She was the clinical Lead for the UK Centre for Perioperative Care NatSSIPs 2 rewrite (National Safety Standards for Invasive Procedures), which was published in January 2023. Annie is an IHI Quality Improvement (QI) coach and a Human Factors trainer. Annie is a speaker, co-organiser/faculty for and at a number of Human Factors, Quality Improvement, Return to Work, Safety and Leadership conferences. She has trained over 100 MDT teams.