Healthcare professionals and students were invited to submit posters for the AfPP Annual National Conference 2026, providing a valuable opportunity to showcase innovative practice, research and quality improvement initiatives to colleagues from across the perioperative community. The standard of submissions…
RoSPA-accredited Level 3 Award for Theatre Patient Handling Trainers for Senior Theatre Staff, ODPs and Manual Handling Professionals Patient transfers, positioning and repositioning in the operating theatre can present unique challenges, particularly when patients are anaesthetised, vulnerable or connected to…
Every day, perioperative teams make hundreds of decisions that influence patient outcomes. But even the most skilled professionals can only perform at their best when the systems, culture and working environment around them support safe practice. Staffing pressures, increasing patient…
AfPP’s new #notjusta campaign was inspired by Beth’s story. Beth was a little girl who was undergoing what, by the standards described in later evidence, should have been a straightforward, comparatively low risk operation (Bowen 2008). She should have returned…