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SCTS 2022 Annual Meeting - Postponement

20 December 2021

Dear colleagues

We feel a sense of déjà vu as we send you this piece of communication at this time of the year.

The emergence of the Omicron COVID variant in recent days with increased infectivity and transmissibility will result in a rapid increase in hospital admissions in the coming weeks. This will adversely affect our already stretched and fragile health care system, with surgical specialities bearing the brunt of it. The uncertainty, apprehension, and preoccupation with preparing and being a part of strategies to confront the surge will leave little appetite for individuals to consider and plan for any other ventures like the Annual Meeting. The NHS and our patients need us now more than ever, we need to support each other demonstrating the rare camaraderie our speciality is proud of and hope the anticipated wave of infection is short and swift, with lesser hospital admissions.

In such difficult and uncertain times, there will be little desire to make arrangements to travel and register for the forthcoming SCTS Annual meeting in Belfast in March.

We have made the decision to postpone the Annual meeting to 8th to 10th May 2022. This deferment has been agreed after consulting the experts, who are confident about early May being the opportune time to hold such a meeting.

We will continue to monitor the situation and will come back with more information.

We wish you all the best

SCTS Annual Meeting Organising Team

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