At AfPP, our awards celebrate the people and teams making a real difference to patient care, safety, and best practice across perioperative practice. Our Educator of the Year award recognises those whose teaching, leadership, and encouragement are shaping the future…
At this year’s AfPP Annual National Conference 2026, Dave James will lead two sessions exploring wellbeing, resilience, authenticity and team culture in healthcare. Dave, a speaker coach, former healthcare professional and two-time TEDx speaker, helps people communicate authentically without losing…
Karen Pask’s career in theatre nursing has been shaped by a single guiding principle: putting patients at the heart of everything she does. She began as a scrub nurse, quickly recognising the vulnerability of patients entering the operating theatre. “Patients…
A powerful simulation exploring a time-critical perioperative emergency has earned top recognition at the AfPP Emergencies and Trauma Symposium at The Royal Society of Medicine in London, with a team from Liverpool John Moores University taking home the winning poster…