About Us
Enhancing the quality of Care and Patient Safety in Perioperative Practice.
AfPP is the UK’s leading membership organisation dedicated to theatre practitioners and improving perioperative care. For 60 years we’ve provided crucial support, training and guidance to practitioners.
Our members are at the heart of everything we do. We aim to support you to become the best practitioner you can be.
Talking to our members and listening to their needs enables us to shape the best products and services.
Our Vision and Values
Our mission is to improve patient care through constantly developing and promoting the leading standards for perioperative practice and practitioners.
Our vision is to lead perioperative excellence.
Our values are: We put the public benefit first, we put our members at the heart of what we do, we disseminate learning, we act with integrity, we are a commercial organisation, we are a people organisation, we are a quality organisation.
Our purpose is to advance health by improving patient care in perioperative practice. We do this by; Determining standards and promoting best practice, facilitating education and practice development, providing professional support services, providing a forum for partnership with industry and shaping healthcare policy.
Our History
It’s been 60 years since AfPP was founded by Daisy Aris, MBE, a forward-thinking theatre nurse who had the idea of bringing together like-minded clinicians to collectively improve patient safety in the operating theatre environment.
Since then, we have gone from strength to strength…
Our Board
AfPP’s board of trustees comprises up to seven trustees, electedfrom our membership, by our members, known as our Elected Trustees. Additionally we have up to four other trustees that are appointed by the board to fill gaps in knowledge and experience. These are known as Non-elected trustees. Both elected and non-elected trustees have equal standing in terms of their responsibilities to the charity.
Our trustees, which include our President, President Elect and Immediate Past President, all work hard to support our members and give practitioners a voice.
Annual General Meeting
All paying members of AfPP are entitled to vote on the Association’s policy and direction.
You can vote either at the AGM, or by a proxy vote.
