Welcome to our AUGIS DANS (Allied Health Professionals and Clinical Nurse Specialists)

If you are not a member we would encourage you to join up and then you will receive updates about the AUGIS Annual Scientific Meeting 2024. 

Click here to join AUGIS

Find out more about AUGIS 2024

Ben Huntly

Zoe Furber

Fiona Huddy

Macmillan Oesophago-Gastric Specialist Dietitian

Fiona has over 15 years’ experience as a specialist dietitian working with patients diagnosed with oesophageal and gastric cancer at the regional OG unit in Guildford. She supports patients from diagnosis, throughout the staging process and during subsequent oncological and surgical treatments.

Her research interests include prehabilitation and nutritional optimisation for surgery, optimal route for nutrition support following OG resection and the investigation and management of the longer term complications following OG resection.

Liz Ward

DANS - Nurses, Dietitians and other Allied Health Professionals

Membership of AUGIS is an opportunity to enhance knowledge, skills and expertise through continuing education, collaboration and networking.

Being a member of AUGIS supports the management of patients undergoing Oesophagogastric (OG) and Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic (HPB) surgery and treatments for cancer.

Education

• Provision of national educational events to enhance specialist knowledge and keep abreast of new developments
• Annual Scientific Meeting
• Discounted preferential rates.
• Opportunity for abstract submission for formal and poster presentations.
• Prize for best poster or formal presentation.
• Annual training event (on-line or collaborative event with surgical trainees)
• Free or discounted registration fee
• Free access to on-line multi-disciplinary webinars and lectures, which are recorded in a closed members archive.

Bursaries/Fellowships

• Eligibility to apply for research fellowships or travel bursaries.

Clinical Experts/Mentorship

• Access to clinical experts for each Region, who contribute to clinical guidelines, local and national educational events, participate in national audits, nutrition consensus groups.
• Opportunities for mentorship, peer support, networking and collaboration with each other and our medical colleagues.
• Regional members represent the interests of its members at AUGIS

If you would like to join as an AUGIS Allied Health Professional/CNS Member, the annual subsciption rate is £20 and the membership year runs from the 1st June to the 31st May. If you join AUGIS within the annual subscription year period you will pay the pro-rata membership rate until the next annual renewal date.

Click here to join AUGIS

Specialist Nurses and Allied Health Professionals (AHPs)

The AUGIS AHP and Nurse Sub-Committee is made up of Specialist Nurses, Specialist Dietitians, Advanced Nurse/Care Practitioners and other AHPs, who act as regional representatives. The Lead Specialist Nurses and AHPs also sit on the AUGIS Council. The Sub-Committee represents Nurses and AHPs, who share a common interest mainly in UGI/HPB Surgery, Endoscopy and Oncology but also benign diseases.

The overall goal is to promote evidence-based care in the management of patients, including nutrition, with UGI conditions through collaborative practice, research and education.

We share a common interest in improving patient services and in providing professional support through national collaboration. Importantly, AUGIS wishes to raise the professional profile for all Nurses and AHPs within UGI/HPB surgery, oncology and endoscopy.

Aims of the group:

• Raise the professional profile for all Nurses and AHPs within surgery, oncology and endoscopy.
• Encourage Nurses and AHPs to enhance their personal profile and commitment to their professional development.
• Explore national guidance on Specialist Nurse and Dietetic standards and staffing.
• Promote collaborative practice with Surgeons and other Medical Clinicians/Scientists, Nurses and other AHPs at local, national and international levels through shared education, audit and research.
• Provide an expert resource on clinical issues and patient experience.
• Share and promote best practice guidelines and patient information.
• Emphasise the requirement for professional training and development in a specialist field and for revalidation.
• Establish a programme of Nurse and AHP educational events to support the training and development of Specialist Nurses, other Nurses and AHPs new to the area and refresher courses for experienced members of the team.
• Provide an educational programme with high quality presentations and speakers at the annual AUGIS scientific meeting. Nurses and AHPs are encouraged to support this conference.
• Represent AHPs and Nurses on the AUGIS Council.

Anne-Margrethe Phillips, Chair of AUGIS AHP/CNS Sub-Committee.

Reviewed and agreed by the AUGIS AHP & Specialist Nurse Sub-Committee

May 2024