Upcoming events

Overview: The advanced male urethral catheterisation (AMUC) training course aims to provide participants with the necessary knowledge base and practical skills to confidently manage challenging and difficult cases independently, employing advanced urethral catheterisation techniques and using Urethrotech UCD catheter with confidence.

Dates:

3 October 2025 (1.30pm–5.30pm)
5 December 2025 (1.30pm–5.30pm)

Price: £371.60

Venue: UCH Education Centre, London, NW1 2PG

More information and booking: https://auca.arlo.co/w/

Overview: This 3-day course will provide significant hands-on rehearsal where participants will learn basic microscope set up, dissection and suturing skills, microvascular anastomosis and grafts. 

Target audience: Surgical Trainees (CT2 – ST4) 

Dates:
29 September–1 October 2025
2–4 December 2025

Learning outcomes: 

• Basic microscope set up
• Fundamental microsurgery skills
• End-to-end anastomosis (artery-artery, artery-vein)
• Vein graft

Overview:

This unique masterclass will showcase the very best of multi-agency working during extrication. The expert Faculty will bring together advanced medicine with the latest principles of vehicle extrication.

The masterclass will create a whole series of RTC casualty scenarios with varied levels of entrapment and medical complexity. Each scenario will develop and educate the delegates in a unique way, so that on completion of the masterclass they are better prepared for all types of ‘medical rescue’ in entrapment.

Dates:17–18 September 2025

Aim:

To deliver the casualties to advanced level medical care as safely and swiftly as possible, without unnecessary delay.

Fees: £250.00

Please note: Any cancellations will be subject to a £10 administration fee. All cancellations must be made at least 6 weeks prior to the event date.

Venue: The National Exhibition Centre, Town Hall & Symphony Hall, Broad Street, Birmingham, B40 1NT

More information and booking:
https://www.ataccgroup.com/product/emergency-services-show-2025-medical-rescue-workshop/

Aims and objectives:

• To understand the principles of docking and undocking the da Vinci Xi system and the positioning of patients for robotic adrenal surgery
• To identify the target anatomy for adrenal procedures and instrument selection
• To use the robotic instrument to mobilise the colon/spleen/pancreas/liver to expose the adrenal glands
• Use of robotic energy devices

Target audience: Trainees ST7 /ST8, Senior Clinical Fellows, Consultants

Fee: £995

Venue: Newcastle Surgical Training Centre, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne

Email: nuth.nstc.enquiries@nhs.net

Website: https://nstcsurg.org/

Learning Objectives:

• Anatomy and landmarks
• Indications for tracheostomy
• Percutaneous tracheostomy
• Surgical tracheostomy
• Cricothyroidotomy
• Complications of tracheostomy
• Hands-on experience on pig larynx

Target Audience: ENT surgeons, A&E and ITU trainees

Venue: The Griffin Institute, Watford Road, Y Block, Harrow, HA1 3UJ 

Price: £300

Contact: courses@griffininstitute.org.uk or 0203 958 0500

Website: Front of Neck Airway Course - The Griffin Institute

Aims and objectives: 

Robotic cadaveric procedures to be performed:

• Robotic cholecystectomy
• Robotic distal pancreatectomy
• Robotic splenectomy
• Robotic left lateral sectionectomy
• Robotic segmental liver resection

Target audience: Trainees ST7/ST8, HPB Consultants

Fee: £1500

Venue: Newcastle Surgical Training Centre, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne

Email: nuth.nstc.enquiries@nhs.net

Website: https://nstcsurg.org/

Overview: This course has been designed with maximum hands-on operating time so that every delegate will be able to perform every procedure under direct supervision in a unique, intensive series of practical surgical cadaveric workshops. In addition, faculty will provide didactic lectures, open forums and case-based discussions.

Sessions: 

• Tracheostomy
• Thyroid Lobectomy
• External pharyngeal pouch surgery
• Submandibular gland surgery
• Neck dissection
• Parotidectomy
• Laryngectomy / TEP
• Mandibulotomy
• Maxillectomy
• Pectoralis major myocutaneous flap
• Deltopectoral flap
• Fibula osteocutaneous free flap
• Radial forearm free flap

Target audience: Trainees (ST3 – ST8) and Consultants

Venue: Newcastle Surgical Training Centre, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne

Email: nuth.nstc.enquiries@nhs.net

Website: https://nstcsurg.org/

Overview: This 2-day flap dissection course will explore the anatomy and harvesting techniques for the most used flaps in head and neck reconstructive surgery. The programme has interactive videos and demonstration of the latest 3D surgical planning techniques. The course director is Abdul Ahmed a Consultant Maxillofacial, Reconstructive, Head & Neck, and Robotic Surgeon based at Northwick Park hospital, and the faculty consists of other highly qualified and experienced Head and Neck reconstructive surgeons.

Venue: The Griffin Institute, Watford Road, Y Block, Harrow, HA1 3UJ 

Price:
Surgeon: £1250
Observers: £300

Contact: courses@griffininstitute.org.uk or 0203 958 0500

Website: London Flap 2025 (Surgeon) - The Griffin Institute

Overview: A one-and-a-half-day (half-day lecture, full-day hands-on) intensive course at The Griffin Institute focusing on robotic right hemicolectomy and intracorporeal anastomosis. Surgeons will advance their skills through expert-led hands-on training.

Venue: The Griffin Institute, Watford Road, Y Block, Harrow, HA1 3UJ 

Price: £1490

Contact: courses@griffininstitute.org.uk or 0203 958 0500

Overview: The generic skills covered in this course will be useful for surgeons from several specialties. Delegates will benefit most from this event if they are in a position to consolidate their robotic skills when they return to their own clinical setting.

Target Audience: Surgical Trainees and Consultants 

Dates:
31st October – 1st November 2025
3rd – 4th December 2025

The course will include:

• pre course learning
• system information (Da Vinci consoles)
• docking and undocking
• set up and basic manipulation exercises
• robotic dissection skills
• non technical skills
• troubleshooting
• emergency undocking
• robotic suturing/ anastomosis exercises

Venue: The Griffin Institute, Watford Road, Y Block, Harrow, HA1 3UJ 

Price: £1300

Contact: courses@griffininstitute.org.uk or 0203 958 0500

Website: Basic Robotic Surgery Skills Course - The Griffin Institute

Overview: This 3-day course will provide significant hands-on rehearsal where participants will learn basic microscope set up, dissection and suturing skills, microvascular anastomosis and grafts. 

Target Audience: Surgical Trainees (CT2 – ST4) 

Dates:
2nd – 4th December 2025
20th – 22nd January 2026

Learning outcomes: 
• Basic microscope set up 
• Fundamental microsurgery skills 
• End to end anastomosis (artery-artery, artery-vein) 
• Vein graft 

Venue: The Griffin Institute, Watford Road, Y Block, Harrow, HA1 3UJ 

Price: £660

Contact: courses@griffininstitute.org.uk or 0203 958 0500

Website: Introduction to Microsurgery 2025 - The Griffin Institute 

Topics Covered: 

• Philosophy of the multidisciplinary approach to major trauma in theatre 
• Practical integration of Damage Control Resuscitation and Surgery Damage control anaesthesia
• Complex surgical decision making in cavity surgery and the mangled extremity through cadaveric training and simulation
• Surgical considerations for anaesthetists/anaesthetic considerations for surgeons
• The utility of radiology/IR in major trauma
• The role of perioperative practitioners in delivering effective trauma care
• Planning beyond damage control

Target Audience: ST8 and Consultants in General Surgery, Vascular Surgery, Orthopaedic Surgery & Plastic Surgery, ST8 & Consultant Anaesthetists, Operating Department Practitioners

Venue: Newcastle Surgical Training Centre, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne

Email: nuth.nstc.enquiries@nhs.net

Website: https://nstcsurg.org/

Overview: The course will commence with CT imaging of injuries on human cadaveric specimens. Participants will benefit from expert guidance on treatment planning, with feedback on performance enhanced by CT evaluation of repairs.

Target audience: Surgical Trainees and Consultants 

Venue: The Griffin Institute, Watford Road, Y Block, Harrow, HA1 3UJ 

Price:
Surgeon: £1250
Observers: £220

Contact: courses@griffininstitute.org.uk or 0203 958 0500

Website: Surgical repair of craniofacial trauma - The Griffin Institute

Overview: The FESS Course has been designed with maximum hands-on dissection time. Individual delegates will perform each procedure under direct supervision in a unique intensive series of practical surgical cadaveric workshops. Specialist faculty will provide short didactic lectures, an open forum and case-based discussions, all held in a relaxed, interactive way.

Practical sessions:

• Practical fresh frozen cadaver dissection/supervised tuition
• Endonasal techniques from basic to advanced
• How to recognize/deal with emergency ESS situations
• Practical radiological anatomy
• Open approaches to sinuses
• Skull base procedures

Target Audience: ENT Trainees ST3 - ST8 to Consultants

Venue: Newcastle Surgical Training Centre, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne

Email: nuth.nstc.enquiries@nhs.net

Website: https://nstcsurg.org/