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BSSH - The British Society for Surgery of the Hand

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Our Surgical Partners

Table 1

Association
Overseas Lead Name Email Address	Steve Hodgson stephen.hodgson@boltonft.nhs.uk Jonathan Jones jwmjones@doctors.net.uk	Jim Harrison, Africa Regional Director jharrison@ao-alliance.org	Suzie Venn suzie.venn@btinternet.com	Deepa Bose secretary@woc.org
Overseas Committee	BSSH Overseas Committee	Managing Director Dr Claude Martin cmartin@ao-alliance.org Asia Committee English speaking Africa Committee French speaking Africa Committee	Urolink	Executive Committee
Types of education delivered	Courses on hand trauma management for surgeons and their teams (nurses, therapists) – lectures, discussions groups and practicals. Webinars	Courses Mainly fracture care – non-operative, operating room personnel, basic fracture care for surgeons, specialised courses Fellowships – mainly in regional but also global. Webinars Mentoring	Surgical education including procedural competencies (endoscopic TURP, urethroplasty) Leadership programme Support COSECSA exams	Educating surgeons in direct education using courses and in the operating theatre. Advice on setting up local training programmes
Project countries	Sierra Leone, Ethiopia Sudan, Tanzania Malawi, Myanmar Uganda, Bangladesh	26 countries in Africa with special focus in Malawi, Ethiopia and Ghana 7 countries in Asia	Zambia Gambia Ethiopia Sri Lanka Tanzania. Malawi Uganda, Senegal. Members involved in many others	Ethiopia Nepal Sierra Leone Malawi Cambodia, Guyana Cameroon Philippines Bangladesh Zambia
Number of members involved over last 5 years	63 In 2018 - 7 programmes involving 23 BSSH members	Nearly all our faculty are from project countries themselves – several hundred	245 members of Urolink Actively contributing - 30	250 members 30 actively contributing
UK Fellowship for LMIC surgeons supported Y/N If yes, number/year	Yes 1 per year – visit to UK from one of our project countries	No	No	No
Potential areas for collaboration	Close collaboration with BFIRST potential specialist courses – trauma, paediatrics, scope for closer work with WOC	Specialist courses Hospital link partnerships Research	N/A	Malawi Ethiopia
Any other info to share	Overseas Section	AO-alliance.org	Urolink section of BAUS website	wocuk.org

Table 2

Association
Overseas Lead Name Email Address	Sarah Tucker sarahtucker.oxford@gmail.com Wee Lam lamweeleon@googlemail.com	David Drake David.drake@doctors.org.uk	Tan Arulampalam laptan1@yahoo.co.uk
Overseas Committee	BFIRST Committee	International Affairs Committee	International Development Committee
Types of education delivered	Train surgeons working in the poorest countries in the world to enable them to undertake reconstructive Plastic Surgery. Lectures, microsurgery courses, surgical membership	Regional training in LMIC’S Neonatal surgical skills General Surgery Urology	UK surgeon delivered education including Basic Surgical Skills Courses and Surgical Trauma Courses
Project countries	Sri Lanka, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Vietnam, Kenya, Sudan, Pakistan, India	West Africa, Middle East – Libya, Egypt, Sudan/East Africa, Indian subcontinents, Southern Africa, S.E. Asia including Myanmar	India COSECSA countries Sri Lanka
UK Fellowship for LMIC surgeons supported Y/N If yes, number/year	3/year	X 4/year Lister Fellowship, Hugh Greenwood Fellowship & visit UK unit +/- BAPS Conference	3 bursaries per year for attendance at UK conference and UK units
Potential areas for collaboration		Congenital hand Poly trauma Paediatric burns	Trauma courses
Any other information to share	bfirst.org.uk	baps.org.uk	asgbi.org.uk

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