Closing date: 5pm Friday 21 November 2025

05 November 2025 (Last updated 5 Nov 2025)

ACPGBI is inviting applications from Ordinary Members for the Abdominal Wall Sub-Committee.

The purpose of the Abdominal Wall subcommittee is to represent and support ACPGBI members in matters relating to the abdominal wall during or after elective and emergency colorectal or other abdominal surgery. This subcommittee is not an Abdominal Wall Reconstruction (AWR) subcommittee. It is an inevitability that some of the members will have an AWR practice and AWR will be within the remit but this is a subcommittee which is to dedicate itself to education and best practice in matters relating to the abdominal wall in the broadest sense. This will include supporting best clinical practice as well as education, training, clinical audit and research.

This will include but is not limited to SSI prevention, wound formation and closure in open and MIS surgery (both elective and emergency), incisional hernia prevention and prophylaxis, parastomal hernia prevention and treatment, prevention and management of the open abdomen, abdominal wall management in intestinal failure as well as mechanisms and methods of hernia repair including AWR. It is envisaged that the subcommittee will form collaborative links with existing hernia and plastic surgery societies as appropriate to support best practice.  

There are one vacancy available on this Committee. 

We strongly encourage applications from the full spectrum of our Ordinary membership category

Please submit expressions of interest to include a covering letter and one A4 page abridged CV to Laura Hancock, Honorary Secretary

Closing date: 5pm Friday 21 November 2025

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