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South Thames Regional Meeting

The South Thames Regional Meeting (KSS and South Thames) is held biannually at various hospitals around the regions of London South and South East Coast. There are STC meetings in the morning, followed by lunch for all, and then the afternoon meeting. There are presentations of the various audit and research projects from around the region, followed by a dinner in the evening. Due to COVID there were no meetings in 2020.

If you require any further information regarding the website, e-mail the website co-ordinator, Matt Bultitude, at Guy's & St Thomas' Hospital. For ALL enquiries related to the next meeting see informationn below or contact the meeting organiser.


The most recent South Thames Regional Meeting was held at Kings College Hospital on Thursday 7 December 2023. Abstracts from across South London and South Thames were submitted and the meeting organiser was Mr Azhar Khan.

Archive of Previous Meetings

The South Thames Regional Meeting is held at 6-monthly intervals in various hospitals from London South and Kent Surrey & Sussex (KSS, formerly South East Coast).  Below is a list of recent meetings with abstract booklets and prize winners:

DEC 2023 (King's College Hospital)
1st
- Kamran Haq, Joint 2nd - Findlay MacAskill, Joint 2nd - Nikki Kerdegari
Abstracts
MAR 2023 (Frimley Park Hospital)
1st -
Edward Hart, 2nd - Natalie George, 3rd - Leshanth Uthayanan
Abstracts
NOV 2022 (Guy's & St Thomas' Hospital)
1st - 
Kelly Ong (awarded the Derek Packham Medal), 2nd - Findlay MacAskill
Abstracts
APR 2021 (St George's Hospital - Virtual)
Benign
: 1st (and overall winner) - F MacAskill, 2nd - N Tan, 3rd - N Lobo
Cancer: 1st - D Whiting, 2nd - D Sri, 3rd - S Yan
Abstracts
OCT 2019 (St Peter's Hospital, Chertsey)
1st - 
Angela Lam, 2nd - Jade Harrison, 3rd - Tharani Mahesan
Abstracts
APR 2019 (Epsom District Hospital)
1st -
Arn Sujenthiran, 2nd - Phil Brousil, 3rd - Joseph Santiapillai
Abstracts
NOV 2018 (Frimley Park Hospital)
1st - 
D Akiboye (awarded the Derek Packham Medal),. Joint 2nd - T Stonier & D Toomey
The inaugural Bill Choi Award was presemted to M Stanowski
Abstracts
APR 2018 (Guy's & St Thomas' Hospital)
1st - 
Michael Ager, 2nd - Niyati Lobo, 3rd - & Ola Blach
Abstracts
NOV 2017 (St George's Hospital)
1st - 
Niyati Lobo, Joint 2nd - Francesca Kum & Meghana Kulkarni
Abstracts
APR 2017 (Ashford & St Peter's Hospital)
1st - Sophie Rintoul-Hoad, 2nd - Kamran Haq, 3rd - Amy Burrows
Abstracts
NOV 2016 (Guy's & St Thomas' Hospital)
1st - Ola Blach, 2nd - Andrea Tay, 3rd - Ian Rudd
Abstracts
MAY 2016 (Darent Valley Hospital, Dartford)
1st - Wayne Lam, 2nd - Niyati Lobo
Abstracts
NOV 2015 (Tunbridge Wells Hospital)
1st - Wayne Lam, 2nd - Angus Campbell
Abstracts
MAY 2015 (Epsom & St Helier Hospital)
1st - Kathie Wong, 2nd - Archie Fernando, 3rd - Helen Teixeira
Abstracts
NOV 2014 (Kent & Canterbury Hospital)
1st - Andrew Chetwood, 2nd - Maria Vednayagam
Abstracts
MAY 2014 (Kingston Hospital)
Winner - Nick Drinnan
Abstracts
OCT 2013 (Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton)
1st - Archie Fernando, 2nd - Aakash Pai, 3rd - Marios Hadjipavlou
Abstracts
JAN 2013 (St Peter's Hospital, Chertsey)
1st - Andrew Chetwood, 2nd - R Zakri, 3rd - E Winstanley
Abstracts
APR 2012 (Maidstone Hospital)
Winner - Andrew Chetwood
Abstracts
NOV 2011 (Frimley Park Hospital)
1st - Pete Acher, 2nd - Mario Bolgeri
Abstracts
APR 2011 (St George's Hospital, Tooting)
Winner - Kathie Wong
Abstracts
NOV 2010 (Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woolwich)
Winner - Susan Willis
Abstracts
APR 2010 (Guy's & St Thomas' Hospital)
Winner - John Withington
Abstracts

Abstracts will not be considered if they are substantially longer than 250 words. Only one abstract is likely to be considered per presenter. Any topic is accepted although preference may be given to high-quality regional audit projects. This meeting is for work carried out at hospitals in London South and Kent, Surrey and Sussex regions only - abstracts from other regions will not be accepted.  

Please submit your abstract(s) using the form below (when available). The website should inform you, at the bottom of the page, when your abstract has been despatched successfully:

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