2025 Winner of Sandpit Prize and £20000 grant: Ms Mariam Ghaddah |||
2025 Video Prize Winner: Mr Joel Lambert |||
2025 Best Presentation: Mr Peter Mitchell III
2025 Winner of Sandpit Prize and £20000 grant: Ms Mariam Ghaddah ||| 2025 Video Prize Winner: Mr Joel Lambert ||| 2025 Best Presentation: Mr Peter Mitchell III
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MARIAM GHADDAH (Lancaster Royal Infirmary) for ‘Evaluating the role of CT Colonography as a primary investigation in patients referred through 2ww lower GI pathway’
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JOEL LAMBERT - HPB Surgeon (ELHT) for presentation on ‘Laparoscopic resection of Giant Haemangioma’
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PETER MITCHELL - Consultant CRS LTHTR for presentation on ‘Anal cancer incidence and deprivation in Lancashire & South Cumbria’
Surgery in Lancashire and South
Cumbria (SILASC)conference
Wednesday 1st October 2025
Awarded 6 CPD Points by RSCEd
SILASC 2025 GALLERY
Organised in partnership with
RESEARCH OR INNOVATION (VIDEO) ABSTRACT SUBMISSION GUIDELINES - DEADLINE 20TH AUGUST
AWARD: £250 for each category winner (video or research)
Email to: bridges@elht.nhs.uk
Abstract Theme
Research or Innovation in Surgery in HPB, UGI, Colorectal, general and emergency surgery
Submission Criteria
Please specify if your submission is for the research or innovation presentation session.
Max. 250 words
Research abstracts accepted from all NHS staff.
Innovation abstracts accepted from all NHS staff and should not include research. We encourage short video presentations and can include 'how I do things...'. Video attachment should be included , if part of the presentation.
Presentation Format
6 minutes powerpoint presentation (with embedded and annotated video if applicable)
3 minutes questions
Abstract Format
Background, Methods, Results, Conclusion
Certificates and Prizes
The best research presentations will be awarded £250
The best video presentation will be awarded £250
SUBMISSION CRITERIA
SURGICAL SANDPIT - ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA AND SUBMISSION GUIDELINES - DEADLINE 20TH AUGUST
AWARD: £20,000
Email to: bridges@elht.nhs.uk
1. The pilot project must involve the Lancashire and South Cumbria population.
2. Must have a Project Lead or Co-Lead employed in LSC in an NHS institution
3. Administrative and research-focused resources & facilities with the capability of delivering the project before release of funds.
4. Originality: Must be contributing to an urgent or emerging health need, patient benefit, new technology or novel concept requiring further proof & must be surgical in nature and/or having an impact on patients having surgery for cancer
5. Project proposal must demonstrate patient and public involvement and engagement and consideration of issues of Health Equity throughout all stages of the research design before release of funds.
6. Project must be deliverable within 2 years and yearly presentation of interim analyses/findings at subsequent SILASC conferences.
7. In cases where the costings exceed the Sandpit grant, the successful candidate will have to provide proof of the where the rest of the cost will be appropriated
8. Projects must include a brief lay summary of no more than 350 words
Criteria for Disbursement of Funds
1. Assessment by a Research Ethics Committee with both REC & HRA approvals.
2. A brief costings analysis as to how the funds will be used.
A draft proposal with a word limit of 1000 words not including the headings or references must be in the following format sections:
Introduction, Hypothesis, Scientific basis, Aims, Methodology, References
